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Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishingly small group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. The book reveals the quarrelsome underside of shtetl life at a time of scarce resources, and describes how Doba-Mera survives two pogroms and two world wars. Around 1905, barely a teenager but already earning a living, she joins Marxist circles and takes part in clandestine activities. Through her eyes we experience the class divisions in shtetl and synagogue, as well as aspects of everyday life such as education, courtship and marriage, housing, food, illness, and the organization of the working life and working conditions in sewing shops.

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This text investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In extreme cases, hundreds of these women sought refuge in a KrakØw convent, where many converted to Catholicism. Those who stayed home often remained Jewish in name only. The book reconstructs the stories of three Jewish women runaways and reveals their struggles and innermost convictions.

Young women --- Jewish women --- Jewish women --- Jewish women --- Christian converts from Judaism --- Conflict of generations --- Religious life --- History. --- Education --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Conversion to Christianity --- Felician Sisters. --- Kraków (Poland) --- 1869 Habsburg compulsory education law. --- A Murder in Lemburg. --- Anna Kluger. --- Austrian history. --- Beit Yaakov schools. --- Confessions of the Shtetl. --- Daniel Unowsky. --- Debora Lewkowicz. --- Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia. --- Eastern European Jewish history. --- Ellie Schainker. --- Felician Sisters' convent. --- Galician Jewry. --- Habsburg monarchy. --- Hasidic women. --- Hasidism. --- Iris Parush. --- Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia. --- Jewish Women in Eastern Europe. --- Jewish feminism. --- Joshua Shanes. --- Michael Stanislawski. --- Michalina Araten. --- Orthodox Jewish society. --- Paula Hyman. --- Polonized identity. --- Reading Jewish Women. --- Sarah Schenirer. --- The Plunder. --- Viennese Supreme Court. --- abductions by the Church. --- church abductions. --- formal Jewish education for women. --- gender studies. --- ideological indoctrination.

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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 United States. This book tells the story of how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that they disavow.Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers paint a richly textured portrait of daily life in Kiryas Joel, exploring the community's guiding religious, social, and economic norms. They delve into the roots of Satmar Hasidism and its charismatic founder, Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, following his journey from nineteenth-century Hungary to post–World War II Brooklyn, where he dreamed of founding an ideal Jewish town modeled on the shtetls of eastern Europe. Stolzenberg and Myers chart the rise of Kiryas Joel as an official municipality with its own elected local government. They show how constant legal and political battles defined and even bolstered the community, whose very success has coincided with the rise of political conservatism and multiculturalism in American society over the past forty years.Timely and accessible, American Shtetl unravels the strands of cultural and legal conflict that gave rise to one of the most vibrant religious communities in America, and reveals a way of life shaped by both self-segregation and unwitting assimilation.

Jews --- Politics and government. --- Teitelbaum, Joel --- Teitelbaum, Joel. --- Teitelbaum, Joel --- 1900-2099 --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- New York (State) --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) --- History --- History --- Social life and customs. --- History --- History --- 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. --- Communitarianism. --- Conservative Judaism. --- Der Yid. --- Desegregation. --- Dissenter. --- Dissident. --- Donald Trump. --- Establishment Clause. --- Gabbai. --- Gentile. --- George Pataki. --- HaKirya. --- Haredi Judaism. --- Hasid (term). --- Hugo Black. --- Illiberal democracy. --- Individual and group rights. --- International relations. --- Jay Sekulow. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish history. --- Jews. --- Joel (prophet). --- Joel Teitelbaum. --- John Winthrop. --- Judaism. --- Kislev. --- Kollel. --- Land grant. --- Liberal elite. --- Liberalism. --- Libertarian Party (United States). --- Matzo. --- Misery (novel). --- Misnagdim. --- Mitzvah. --- Moral Majority. --- Moses. --- Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar). --- Moshe Teitelbaum (Ujhel). --- Nazi Germany. --- New International Economic Order. --- Niddah. --- Nuclear arms race. --- Of Education. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Passover. --- Pennsylvania Dutch. --- Person of color. --- Peter Cole. --- Poetry. --- Polygamy. --- Rabbi. --- Race and ethnicity in the United States Census. --- Race and ethnicity in the United States. --- Rajneesh. --- Rajneeshpuram. --- Reagan Era. --- Rebbe. --- Reform Judaism. --- Religion. --- Ritual purification. --- Satmar (Hasidic dynasty). --- Secularism. --- Separation of church and state. --- Separatism. --- Shabbat. --- Sheitel. --- Shtadlan. --- Shtetl. --- Society of the United States. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supervisor. --- Tichel. --- Upsherin. --- Utopia. --- V. --- Vaad. --- Voting bloc. --- Wallace v. Jaffree. --- War. --- White flight. --- Women in Judaism. --- World War II. --- Yiddish.