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Hasidic peopleBook 1992 • Mintz, Jerome R.
North American Hasidic Jews • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This book is a study of the Hasidic people in the New York City area, particularly in the Williamsburg, Borough (Boro) Park, and Crown Heights sections of Brooklyn. Two other Hasidic communities discussed for comparative purposes in this document are...Legends of the HasidimBook 1968 • Mintz, Jerome R.
North American Hasidic Jews • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This work provides both an ethnographic study (ca. 1959-1961, 1963) of the Hasidim in the New York City area, as well as a collection of their oral traditions in the form of recorded legends. The document is divided into two major parts. Part I attem...