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Ashton, Dianne. Biale, David Bloom, Stephen G. Feldman, Deborah Stein, Abby Wiesel, ElieSummary: A life apart relates the story of the creation of the Hasidic post-Holocaust communities in the United States. Seven years in the making, this documentary explores Hasidic homes, schools, and ceremonies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run/Icarus Films 1997
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIFSummary: "As a teenager, filmmaker Pearl Gluck left her [Hasidic] Jewish community in Brooklyn for secular life in Manhattan. Many years later, Pearl's father has one wish: that she marry and return to the community . Pearl, however, takes a more creative approach to mend the breach. She travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom: a couch upon which esteemed rabbis once slept....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIVFeldman, Deborah
Summary: Traces the author's upbringing in a Hasidic community in Brooklyn, describing the strict rules that governed her life, arranged marriage at the age of seventeen, and the birth of her son, which led to her plan to leave and forge her own path in life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FELDMAN, DEBORAH FELWiesel, Elie
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.833 WIEStein, Abby
Summary: "Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life.Stein was born as the first son in a rabbinical dynastic family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Stein...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEIN, ABBY STEBloom, Stephen G.
Summary: A portrait of cultural conflict in action visits a small Iowa community where Lubavitcher Jews opened a successful slaughterhouse and found themselves in conflict with gentile neighbors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.733 BLOWiesel, Elie
Summary: "Magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, Talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis, from one of the world's most honored and beloved teachers. From a multitude of sources, Elie Wiesel culls facts, legends, and anecdotes to give us fascinating portraits of notable figures throughout Jewish history--from the Kingdom of Israel in the ninth century B.C.E. to nineteenth-century...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.1 WIEWiesel, Elie
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Notre Dame Press 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.833 WIEAshton, Dianne.
Summary: The ways in which Hanukkah was reshaped by American Jews reveals the changing goals and values that emerged among different contingents each December as they confronted the reality of living as a religious minority in the United States. Bringing together clergy and laity, artists and businessmen, teachers, parents, and children, Hanukkah has been a dynamic force for both stability and change in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.435 ASHBiale, David
Summary: This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social history offers perspectives on the movement's leaders as well as its followers, and demonstrates that, far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, Hasidism is a product of modernity that forged its identity as a radical alternative to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2018