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SatmarBook 1972 • Rubin, Israel
North American Hasidic Jews • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is a study of the Satmar Hasidic Jews living in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. Rubin approaches this work with two major goals: first, to present an ethnographic sketch of Satmar culture ca. 1960-1971; and second, to interpret a...Chassidic community behaviorarticle 1964 • Rubin, Israel
North American Hasidic Jews • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This document, based on a 1960-1961 field study of the Satmar Hasidim of Brooklyn, N.Y., presents a brief historical sketch of the circumstances that gave rise to Hasidim in Eastern Europe in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, and then turns to an...