Book

The Hasidim of Brooklyn: a photo essay

Jason Aronson Inc. • North Vale, N.j. • Published In 1993 • Pages:

By: Strom, Yale.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

This photo essay portrays the Hasidim of Brooklyn, New York in a sincere, intimate fashion, showing visually the manner in which they work, play, study, and pray in their environment. As a general background to this essay, Strom presents an introductory chapter on the cultural history of the Hasidim in Europe from approximately the tenth to the mid-twentieth centuries including historical data on the Belz, Bobover, Ger, Lubavitch, Satmar, Spinka, and Stolin subgroups (or courts). This information has been indexed for OCM Category 170.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Descriptive somatology

History and culture change

Normal garb

Personal grooming

cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

North American Hasidic Jews

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

1996

RegionThe area the document pertains to

North America

Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region

Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures

Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs

Book

Evaluation

Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.

Artisan

Photographer

Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.

4: Excellent Secondary Data

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

John Beierle ; 1995

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

no date

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

variable

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

NotesAdditional notes

Yale Strom

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197)

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

93009329

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Jews