American Shtetl (eBook)

The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York

David N. Myers, Nomi M. Stolzenberg (Autoren)

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2022
496 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22643-9 (ISBN)

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A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soilSettled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish historybut 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 postWorld 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.Timely and accessible, American Shtetl unravels the strands of cultural and legal conflict that gave rise to one of the most vibrant religious communities in America, and reveals a way of life shaped by both self-segregation and unwitting assimilation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 19 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Aaron Teitelbaum • abuse of power • activism • Adjudication • Adult • African Americans • alfred kazin • alternative school • American Creation • American Jewish Congress • american jews • another woman • Anthony Kennedy • anti-defamation league • Bandwagon Effect • Black Power • black separatism • Board of education • Boards of Cooperative Educational Services • Brown v. Board of Education • butcher • Censorship • Certificate of occupancy • Chavrusa • Chief Rabbi • Christian nationalism • Christian Right • City on a Hill • Classical Liberalism • Clergy • Communitarianism • conflict avoidance • Congenital Disorder • conservative judaism • Controversy • Decorum • de facto • Der Yid • desegregation • Dissenter • Dissident • Donald Trump • East-Central Europe • educational program • Education for All Handicapped Children Act • Environmental issue • Establishment Clause • Everson v. Board of Education • Foreign Language • Gabbai • gentile • George Pataki • government office • guerrilla warfare • HaKirya • Haredi Judaism • Hasid (term) • Hebrew Bible • Homeowner association • Hugo Black • illiberal democracy • Individual and group rights • Individualist anarchism • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act • integrationism • International Relations • Israel • Jay Sekulow • Jewish Diaspora • Jewish History • Jews • Joel (Prophet) • Joel Teitelbaum • John Winthrop • Judaism • Judge • Judiciary • Kashrut • Kislev • Kollel • Kulturkampf • land grant • Law of New York • Lawsuit • Legal Doctrine • Legislation • liberal elite • Liberalism • Libertarian Party (United States) • Litigation Strategy • matzo • Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Misery (novel) • Misnagdim • mitzvah • Modernist poetry • Moral Majority • Moses • Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar) • Moshe Teitelbaum (Ujhel) • Motivation • Nazi Germany • Necessity • Neglect • New International Economic Order • Niddah • novelist • Nuclear Arms Race • Obligation • of education • Orthodox Judaism • Ownership • parochial school • Passover • Payot • Peace treaty • Pennsylvania Dutch • person of color • Peter Cole • philanthropy • plaintiff • ploy • Poetry • political movement • Polygamy • Poverty • Provision (accounting) • Rabbi • Race and ethnicity in the United States • Race and ethnicity in the United States Census • Rajneesh • Rajneeshpuram • Reagan Era • Rebbe • Reform Judaism • Religion • Religious education • Requirement • Reverse course • right to property • Ritual purification • Robert Moses • Rudolf Kastner • Sacrilege • Satmar (Hasidic dynasty) • school district • Secularism • Securitization • separation of church and state • separatism • service of process • Shabbat • Sheitel • Shirt • Shtadlan • Shtetl • Society of the United States • State court (United States) • Strategic alliance • Superiority (short story) • Supervisor • Surveillance • Teacher • Ten Men • Textbook • The American Crisis • The Catholic Community • The Day After • tichel • To this Day • town council • Twenty Years After • un-american • United Federation of Teachers • Upsherin • Utopia • V. • Vaad • Vetting • voluntary association • voter registration • voting bloc • Wallace v. Jaffree • war • White-Collar Crime • white flight • William Rehnquist • women in Judaism • World War II • Yiddish
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22643-1 / 0691226431
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22643-9 / 9780691226439