American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York by David N Myers, Nomi M Stolzenberg

American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York

David N Myers, Nomi M Stolzenberg

496 pages first pub 2022 (view editions)

nonfiction politics religion sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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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 m...

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