Feldman, 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FELDMAN, DEBORAH FEL

Wiesel, Elie

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1972

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.833 WIE

Stein, 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2019

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Bloom, 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.733 BLO

Wiesel, 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.1 WIE

Wiesel, 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 WIE