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lst edition. |
| Description |
237 pages ; 27 cm |
| Summary |
Boychiks in the Hood is your passport to the Hasidic "underworld" - a destination far different from popular expectations. When Robert Eisenberg, a secular Jew from Omaha, Nebraska, decided to investigate his family's distant Satmar connections, he unknowingly embarked on a journey that would carry him around the world and into the hearts and lives of the Hasidim. |
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Armed with a loving curiosity and the Yiddish his grandmother taught him as a child, Eisenberg found himself intimately drawn into the sometimes nutty, often inspiring, lives of these most traditional of Jews. Join Eisenberg as he hangs out with an ex-Deadhead in Antwerp, makes a pilgrimage to the grave of the revered Rebbe Nachman in the Ukraine, munches mini-bagels with Roller-blading kosher butchers in Minnesota, talks about sex with a karate champion turned rabbi in Israel, and more. |
| Contents |
A map of the Hasidim: an introduction -- Boychiks in the hood: Williamsburg, Brooklyn -- Boss of the Bobovs: Boro Park, Brooklyn -- Leave it to Tcheeva: St. Paul, Minnesota -- Fairfax fandango: Los Angeles, California -- Uman, Uman, Rosh Hashanah: Uman, Ukraine -- The last of the just: Dombrova, Poland -- Deadheads and diamond cutters: Antwerp, Belgium -- Lake Oybegone: Postville, Iowa -- Haredi Harvard: Lakewood, New Jersey -- Bungalow summer: The Catskills, New York -- Down on the farm: Kfar Chabad and Koyme Miyus, Israel -- Epilogue -- Glossary. |
| Subject |
Hasidism -- United States.
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Hasidim -- United States.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Eisenberg, Robert. Boychiks in the hood. lst ed. San Francisco, CA : HarperSanFrancisco, 1995 (OCoLC)604060327 |
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Online version: Eisenberg, Robert. Boychiks in the hood. lst ed. San Francisco, CA : HarperSanFrancisco, 1995 (OCoLC)608573495 |
| ISBN |
0062512226 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780062512222 cloth alkaline paper |
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0062512234 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780062512239 paperback alkaline paper |
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