American Shtetl : The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York /

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A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soilSettled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history-but many precedents among religious communities in the Uni...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Stolzenberg, Nomi M. (Autor), Myers, David N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Jews > New York (State) > Kiryas Joel > Politics and government.
Satmar Hasidim > New York (State) > Kiryas Joel > History.
Shtetls.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Aaron Teitelbaum.
Activism.
African Americans.
Alfred Kazin.
American Jewish Congress.
American Jews.
Anti-Defamation League.
Black Power.
Black separatism.
Brown v. Board of Education.
Chavrusa.
Chief Rabbi.
Christian nationalism.
Christian right.
City on a Hill.
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Conservative Judaism.
Der Yid.
Desegregation.
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Establishment Clause.
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Individual and group rights.
International relations.
Jay Sekulow.
Jewish diaspora.
Jewish history.
Jews.
Joel (prophet).
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John Winthrop.
Judaism.
Kislev.
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Land grant.
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Nazi Germany.
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Of Education.
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Race and ethnicity in the United States.
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Reagan Era.
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Reform Judaism.
Religion.
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Satmar (Hasidic dynasty).
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Separation of church and state.
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Women in Judaism.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • prologue: Approaching Kiryas Joel
  • Part I: The past and present of the shtetl
  • Chapter 1: Life in the Shtetl
  • Chapter 2: Satmar in Europe
  • Chapter 3: Satmar in America: From Shtetl to Village
  • Part III: Law and religion in the village and beyond
  • Chapter 4: Not in America?
  • Chapter 5: Only in America!
  • Chapter 6: The Law of the Land (Is the Law)
  • Part III: Conflict, competition, and the future of Kiryas Joel
  • Chapter 7 "Two Kings Serving the Same Crown"
  • Epilogue Leaving Kiryas Joel
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish Terms
  • List of Personalities
  • Index

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