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Hasidic WilliamsburgBook 1995 • Kranzler, George
North American Hasidic Jews • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This work presents an account of the dramatic emergence of the Hasidic community of Williamsburg in the face of major crises. It describes '…the loyalty of its members to their Rebbes and their teachings, and to the milieu they created in an old Jewi...The women of Williamsburgarticle 1993 • Kranzler, George
North American Hasidic Jews • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is a brief summary of the status and role of women in the Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y., taken in part from Kranzler's book entitled HASIDIC WILLIAMSBURG (see document 12: Kranzler, in this file). Kranzler discusses the woman...The economic revitalization of the Hasidic community of Williamsburgessay 1995 • Kranzler, George
North American Hasidic Jews • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This paper focuses on the social changes that have taken place in Williamsburg from the 1960s to the 1990s. Highlighted in the article is the survival and impressive comeback of this old Brooklyn community after the prediction by some social scientis...The face of faithBook 1972 • Kranzler, George & Herzberg, Irving I.
North American Hasidic Jews • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
THE FACE OF FAITH is a photographic essay reflecting the total image of the Hasidic community of Williamsburg, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, as it existed and evolved during the 1950s-1960s. The work represents '…an exercise in the use of pho...