New world Hasidim: ethnographic studies of Hasidic Jews in America
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| Summary: | Annotation Boundaries and self-presentation among the Hasidim : a study in identity maintenance /William Shaffir --HaBaD & Habban : "770's" impact on a Yemenite Jewish community in Israel /Laurence D. Loeb --Language of the heart : music in Lubavitcher life /Ellen Koskoff --Varieties of fundamentalist experience : Lubavitch Hasidic and fundamentalist Christian approaches to contemporary family life /Lynn Davidman and Janet Stocks --Engendering orthodoxy : newly orthodox women and Hasidism /Debra R. Kaufman --Agents or victims of religious ideology? : approaches to locating Hasidic women in feminist studies /Bonnie Morris --Economic revitalization of the Hasidic community of Williamsburg /George Kranzler --Home in exile : Hasidism in the New World /Janet S. Belcove-Shalin --Bobover Hasidism Piremshpiyl : from folk drama for Purim to a ritual of transcending the Holocaust /Shifra Epstein /Charismatic leader of the Hasidic community : the Zaddiq, the Rebbe /Solomon Poll. Hasidim has long been the subject of historical, philosophical, and literary accounts, but it is only in recent years that it has begun to attract the close attention of social scientists |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 0585043558 |