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1 online resource (232 pages) |
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An informative and powerful novel, The World Outside Seventeen-year-old Chanie Altman lives the protected life of a Lubavitcher Hasidic girl in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, in 1991. Religion is the most important aspect of her life, and, like other Lubavitcher girls, she is expected to attend a seminary and to marry as soon as she graduates from high school. But Chanie has a beautiful voice and dreams of becoming an opera singer - a profession forbidden to a Hasidic girl. When she meets David, a non-Hasidic Jewish boy, he opens the portals to the world outside her fundamentalist community. The Crown Heights riots break out, and the Lubavitchers are put under siege by their African-American neighbors. A tragedy occurs. Will Chanie stay in the fundamentalist community she has always known in a life that has been prescribed for her, or will she leave it behind to follow her dreams? |
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Living in a Brooklyn Hasidic community in the early 1990s, Chanie Altman anticipates marriage as soon as she graduates from seminary, a path challenged by her dream of becoming an opera singer, a taboo friendship, and the Crown Heights riots. |
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Jews -- Fiction.
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Hasidism -- Fiction.
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Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.
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Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.
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Hasidism -- Juvenile fiction.
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Singers -- Juvenile fiction.
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Hasidism. |
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Jews. |
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Singers. |
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Teenage girls. |
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Wiseman, Eva, 1947- World outside Toronto, Ontario : Tundra Books, 2014 9780887769818 (NjBwBT)bl2014012579 (OCoLC)842523855 |
| ISBN |
9780887769825 : $59.97 |
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0887769829 : $59.97 |
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