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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. |
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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. |
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Subject |
Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.
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Hasidim -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
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Hasidim -- Social conditions.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious. |
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Ethnic relations. |
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Hasidim -- Social conditions. |
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Jews -- Social life and customs. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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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 |
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0062123351 : $15.99 |
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