Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers : An Intimate Journey among Hasidic Girls.

Title:

Author:

Levine, Stephanie Wellen.

ISBN:

9780814753446

Personal Author:

Levine, Stephanie Wellen.

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Contents:

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Carol Gilligan -- Introduction: What I Sought, What I Found -- The Community: A Cultural and Psychological Tour -- The Cast -- Esther (Estie) Gutman: Wild Times and Holy Designs -- Rochel Lehrer: Evolving, Not Rebelling -- Nechama Dina (Dini) Rockoff: Chutzpah and Holiness -- Chaya Jacobson: Strip Clubs and Soul-Searching -- Gittel Kassin: Medicine and Marriage -- Malka (Malkie) Belfer: Miniskirts and the Messiah -- Leah Ratner: Mystic and Maverick -- Into the Future: Adulthood and Insights from the Hasidim -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Abstract:

A lively look at young Jewish women who are typically typecast as pious and reserved but have just as much imagination and similar desires as other young American women.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Religious life.

Habad -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.

Habad -- Religious life -- New York (State) -- New York.

Jewish teenagers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.

Jewish teenagers -- Religious life -- New York (State) -- New York.

Teenage girls -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.

Teenage girls -- Religious life -- New York (State) -- New York.

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Electronic books.

Added Author:

Gilligan, Carol.

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