Hasidic Williamsburg
Subtitle: a contemporary American Hasidic community
By: George Kranzler.
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Northvale, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.; Hasidim -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.; Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions.; New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
Description: Hasidic Williamsburg recounts the dramatic emergence of this unique community in the face of major crises. It is the story of the loyalty of its members to their rebbes and their teachings and to the milieu they created in an old Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

Based on his previous book Williamsburg: A Jewish Community in Transition, which reported the transformation of this moderately Orthodox Jewish community and its rise to prominence after the influx of numbers of refugees from Nazi persecution and the Holocaust, George Kranzler presents the findings of a decade of research into the survival and life-style of Hasidic Williamsburg as a functioning community.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index.