Boychiks in the hood
Subtitle: travels in the Hasidic underground
By: Robert Eisenberg.
Edition: lst ed.
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: 1995
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Hasidism -- United States.; Hasidim -- United States.
Description: Boychiks in the Hood is your passport to the Hasidic "underworld" - a destination far different from popular expectations. When Robert Eisenberg, a secular Jew from Omaha, Nebraska, decided to investigate his family's distant Satmar connections, he unknowingly embarked on a journey that would carry him around the world and into the hearts and lives of the Hasidim.

Armed with a loving curiosity and the Yiddish his grandmother taught him as a child, Eisenberg found himself intimately drawn into the sometimes nutty, often inspiring, lives of these most traditional of Jews. Join Eisenberg as he hangs out with an ex-Deadhead in Antwerp, makes a pilgrimage to the grave of the revered Rebbe Nachman in the Ukraine, munches mini-bagels with Roller-blading kosher butchers in Minnesota, talks about sex with a karate champion turned rabbi in Israel, and more.