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New World Hasidim : Ethnographic Studies of Hasidic Jews in America.
Title:
New World Hasidim : Ethnographic Studies of Hasidic Jews in America.
Author:
Belcove-Shalin, Janet S.
ISBN:
9780791496206
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Series:
SUNY Series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies
Contents:
Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table Of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: NEW WORLD HASIDIM -- Boundaries and Self-Presentationamong the Hasidim: A Study in Identity Maintenance -- HaBaD & Habban: "770's" Impact on a Yemenite Jewish Community in Israel -- The Language of the Heart: Music in Lubavitcher Life -- Varieties of Fundamentalist Experience: Lubavitch Hasidic and Fundamentalist Christian Approaches to Contemporary Family Life -- Engendering Orthodoxy: Newly Orthodox Women and Hasidism -- Agents or Victims of Religious Ideology?: Approaches to Locating Hasidic Women in Feminist Studies -- The Economic Revitalization of the Hasidic Community of Williamsburg -- Home In Exile: Hasidim in the New World -- The Bobover Hasidim Piremshpiyl: From Folk Drama for Purim to a Ritual of Transcending the Holocaust -- The Charismatic Leader of the Hasidic Community: The Zaddiq, the Rebbe -- Back Matter -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- Back Cover.
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.
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