American Shtetl

American Shtetl
Author: Nomi M. Stolzenberg
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2024-02-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0691259291


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Settled 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 it disavows. 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.


American Shtetl
Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors: Nomi M. Stolzenberg
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-02-20 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Settled 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 amo
American Shtetl
Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors: Nomi M. Stolzenberg
Categories: HISTORY
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soil Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasi
The Lost Shtetl
Language: en
Pages: 549
Authors: Max Gross
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-13 - Publisher: HarperCollins

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The Golden Age Shtetl
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-25 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses
Remember Us
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Martin Small
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-25 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos,