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Author Berger, Joseph, 1945- author.

Title The pious ones : the world of hasidim and their battles with america / Joseph Berger. [Boundless electronic resource]

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Harper Perennial, [2014]
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Contents 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.
Summary The Pious Ones by Joseph Berger has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
"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.
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Subject Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.
Hasidim -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Hasidim -- Social conditions.
Ethnic relations.
Hasidim -- Social conditions.
Jews -- Social life and customs.
New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations.
New York (State) -- New York.
Genre Electronic books.
Other Form: Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Berger, Joseph, 1945- Pious ones New York : Harper Perennial, [2014] 9780062123343 (DLC) 2014011724 (OCoLC)870290471
ISBN 9780062123350 : $15.99
0062123351 : $15.99
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