Prologue: A people apart -- A woman of valor, a Hasidic life -- Yitta's golden land -- And when the rebbe sings -- Rebbes and rebels -- Modern miracles -- A ghetto grows in Brooklyn -- The way you wear your hat -- A working holiday -- Kosher sex -- The unkosher variety -- Rebels with a cause -- A modern mensch -- Joseph is yet alive -- Sacred work -- Schools of thought -- The Jewish Rosa Parks -- This property is condemned -- Schools for scandal -- Cain and Abel in Brooklyn -- The law in these here parts -- The Borscht belt redux.
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"As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to record proportions after near-extinction during the Holocaust, award-winning New York Times journalist and author Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the Hasidim to explore their origins, beliefs, and struggles--and the social and political implications of their expanding presence in America"-- Provided by publisher.