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Synagogue life : a study in symbolic interaction
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ISBN: 0226324885 Year: 1976 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

Portrait of American Jews : the last half of the 20th century
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ISBN: 0295800658 9780295800653 0295974702 9780295974705 0295974710 9780295974712 Year: 1995 Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press,

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Defenders of the faith : inside ultra-orthodox Jewry
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ISBN: 0805210075 Year: 1984 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Schocken books,

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When a Jew dies : the ethnography of a bereaved son
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ISBN: 0520219651 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press,

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When a jew dies : the ethnography of a bereaved son.
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Year: 2001 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press.

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Who Will Lead Us? : The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
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ISBN: 0520966481 9780520966482 9780520277236 0520277236 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have reversed the losses they suffered and are growing exponentially. With powerful attachments to the past, mysticism, community, tradition, and charismatic leadership, Hasidism seems the opposite of contemporary Western culture, yet it has thrived in the democratic countries and culture of the West. How? Who Will Lead Us? finds the answers to this question in the fascinating story of five contemporary Hasidic dynasties and their handling of the delicate issue of leadership and succession. Revolving around the central figure of the rebbe, the book explores two dynasties with too few successors, two with too many successors, and one that believes their last rebbe continues to lead them even after his death. Samuel C. Heilman, recognized as a foremost expert on modern Jewish Orthodoxy, here provides outsiders with the essential guide to continuity in the Hasidic world.


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Synagogue life : a study in symbolic interaction
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ISBN: 1351487272 9781351487276 9781315130545 1315130548 9781351487269 1351487264 9780765804334 1138533777 9781138533776 Year: 2017 Publisher: London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge,

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Synagogue Life : a study in symbolic interaction
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The Rebbe : the life and afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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ISBN: 1282665812 9786612665813 1400834279 9781400834273 9780691138886 0691138885 9780691154428 0691154422 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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From the 1950's until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson--revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe--built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he came to believe that he could deny death and change history. Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman paint an unforgettable portrait of Schneerson, showing how he reinvented himself from an aspiring French-trained electrical engineer into a charismatic leader who believed that he and his Lubavitcher Hasidic emissaries could transform the world. They reveal how his messianic convictions ripened and how he attempted to bring the ancient idea of a day of redemption onto the modern world's agenda. Heilman and Friedman also trace what happened after the Rebbe's death, by which time many of his followers had come to think of him as the Messiah himself. The Rebbe tracks Schneerson's remarkable life from his birth in Russia, to his student days in Berlin and Paris, to his rise to global renown in New York, where he developed and preached his powerful spiritual message from the group's gothic mansion in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. This compelling book demonstrates how Schneerson's embrace of traditionalism and American-style modernity made him uniquely suited to his messianic mission. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

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Habad. --- Hasidim --- Rabbis --- Chasidim --- Hassidim --- Jews --- Chabad --- Lubavitch-Chabad --- Hasidism --- Schneerson, Menachem Mendel, --- Habad --- 296 <092> --- Judaïsme. Jodendom--Biografieën --- Schneersohn, Menaḥem Mendel, --- Admor M. ha-M., --- Admor Melekh ha-Mashiaḥ, --- Admor mi-Lyubaṿiṭsh, --- Admor Sheliṭa, --- Lubavitcher Rebbe, --- Lyubaṿiṭsh, Admor sheliṭa mi-, --- M. ha-M., --- Melekh ha-Mashiaḥ, --- Menaḥem Mendl, --- Rabi mi-Lyubaviṭsh, --- Schneerson, Menachem M. --- Schneerson, Mendel, --- Sheneʼursohn, Menaḥem Mendel, --- Shneersohn, Menahem Mendel, --- Shneerson, Menakhem Mendel, --- Shneʼorsohn, Menaḥem, --- Shneursohn, Menahem Mendel, --- Li︠u︡bavichskiĭ Rebe --- אדמו׳׳ר, --- אדמו״ר --- אדמו״ר שליטא, --- אדמו״ר שליט״א --- אדמו״ר, --- אדמו״ר מלך המשיח --- אדמו״ר מליובאאיטש --- אדמו״ר מליובאווטש --- אדמו״ר מליובאוויטש --- רבי --- רבי מליובאוויטש --- רבי, --- שנאורסאהן, מנחם מענדל --- שניארסאהן, מנחם מנדל, --- שניארסאהן, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורסאנן, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורסאן, מנחם --- שניאורסאן, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורסאהן, מנחם מנדל --- שניאורסאהן, מנחם מנדל, --- שניאורסאהן, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורסאהן, מנחם מענדל, --- שניאורסאהן, מנחם מענדל בן לוי יצחק --- שניאורסאהן, מנחם מענדך, --- שניאורסאהן, יוסף יצחק, --- שניאורסן, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורסון, מנחם מנדל --- שניאורסון, מנחם מנדל, --- שניאורסון, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורסוהן, מנחם מענדל --- שניאורדאהן, מנחם מענדל --- מנחם מנדל שניאורסאהן --- מנחם מנדל שניאורסון --- מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן --- מנחם מענדל, --- הרבי מליובאוויטש --- Любавичский Ребе --- Шнеерсон, Менахем-Мендел

Sliding to the right : the contest for the future of American Jewish Orthodoxy
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ISBN: 0520247639 9780520247635 9780520231368 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press

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Written by one of this country's leading experts on American Judaism, this book offers a snapshot of Orthodoxy Jewry in the United States, asking how the community has evolved in the years since World War II and where it is headed in the future. Incorporating rich details of everyday life, fine-grained observations of cultural practices, descriptions of educational institutions, and more, Samuel Heilman delineates the varieties of Jewish Orthodox groups, focusing in particular on the contest between the proudly parochial, contra-acculturative haredi Orthodoxy and the accomodationist modern Orthodoxy over the future of this religious community. What emerges overall is a picture of an Orthodox Jewry that has gained both in numbers and intensity and that has moved farther to the religious right as it struggles to define itself and to maintain age-old traditions in the midst of modernity, secularization, technological advances, and the pervasiveness of contemporary American culture.

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