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Author Stolzenberg, Nomi M., author.

Title American shtetl : the making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic village in upstate New York / Nomi M. Stolzenberg, David N. Myers.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022.
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1 hold on first copy returned of 3 copies

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Location Call No. Status
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  974.7 STO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  305.6968 STOLZENBERG    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  305.6968 STOLZENBERG    In Transit
Description xiii, 477 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-443) and index.
Summary Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history-but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. This book tells the story of how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows. Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers paint a richly textured portrait of daily life in Kiryas Joel, exploring the community's guiding religious, social, and economic norms. They delve into the roots of Satmar Hasidism and its charismatic founder, Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, following his journey from nineteenth-century Hungary to post-World War II Brooklyn, where he dreamed of founding an ideal Jewish town modeled on the shtetls of eastern Europe. Stolzenberg and Myers chart the rise of Kiryas Joel as an official municipality with its own elected local government. They show how constant legal and political battles defined and even bolstered the community, whose very success has coincided with the rise of political conservatism and multiculturalism in American society over the past forty years.
Subject Teitelbaum, Joel https://isni.org/isni/0000000119521189.
Shtetls.
Satmar Hasidim -- New York (State) -- Kiryas Joel -- History.
Jews -- New York (State) -- Kiryas Joel -- Politics and government.
Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century.
Kiryas Joel (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Teitelbaum, Joel. (OCoLC)fst00050716
Jews -- Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst00983330
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Satmar Hasidim. (OCoLC)fst01105835
Shtetls. (OCoLC)fst01117886
New York (State) -- Kiryas Joel. (OCoLC)fst01235574
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Myers, David N., author. https://isni.org/isni/0000000080501016.
Other Form: ebook version : 9780691226439
ISBN 9780691199771 (hardcover)
0691199779 (hardcover)
9780691226439 (ebook)
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