Holy Days
Subtitle: The World Of The Hasidic Family
Edition: 1st Collier Books Ed edition
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: September 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780684813660
Subjects: Judaism; Religious festivals; Religious life & practice; New York; History; Sociology; Religion; Social life and customs; New York (State); Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Judaism - Hasidism; Religion / Judaism / General; Hasidism; Hasidim; Jews
First sentence: IN the small hours of a cold fall morning, when most of Brooklyn was asleep, some five thousand bearded, dark-hatted men, wearing nearly identical dark suits and coats, danced around a decrepit synagogue, arms clasped.