The pious ones
Subtitle: the world of Hasidim and their battles with America
By: Joseph Berger
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780062123343; 9780062123350
Subjects: Social life and customs; Jews; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Social conditions; Hasidim; Religious; Ethnic relations
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: A people apart; title: A woman of valor, a Hasidic life; title: Yitta's golden land; title: And when the rebbe sings; title: Rebbes and rebels; title: Modern miracles; title: A ghetto grows in Brooklyn; title: The way you wear your hat; title: A working holiday; title: Kosher sex; title: The unkosher variety; title: Rebels with a cause; title: A modern mensch; title: Joseph is yet alive; title: Sacred work; title: Schools of thought; title: The Jewish Rosa Parks; title: This property is condemned; title: Schools for scandal; title: Cain and Abel in Brooklyn; title: The law in these here parts; title: The Borscht belt redux.