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Resources for your Consideration

From The Peopling of New York City

For more on the fascinating and complex history and culture of the Chabad Hasidic Jews, check out these resources:

Ahlstrom, Sidney, Religious History of the American People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972

Beck, Bertha, Cultural Transition: Impact of Chassidim on their Jewish Neighbors. The Jewish Digest, September, 1966, 5-8

Belcove-Shalin, Janet S., Home in Exile: Hasidim in the New World. Albany: State University of New York, in press

Belcove-Shalin, Janet, Hasidism Today: Ethnographic Perspectives on Contemporary Hasidic Culture. New York, SUNY Press (in preparation) 1993

Belcove-Shalin, Janet S., Becoming more of an Eskimo: Fieldwork among the Hasidim of Boro Park. in Between Two Worlds: Essays on the Ethnography of American Jewry. Jack Kugelmass (Ed.), Cornell University Press, 1988

Belcove-Shalin, Janet S., The Hasidim of North America: A review of the literature. in Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience. Walter P. Zenner (Ed.), State University of New York Press, 1988

Bellah, R.N., Madsen, R., Sullivan W.M., Swidler, A., & Tipton, S.M., Habits of the Heart. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985

Berger, Alan L., Hasdism and Moonism: Charisma in the Counterculture. Sociological Analysis, 1980, 41(4), 375-390

Berger, Peter, Brigitte Berger, and Hansfried Kellner, The Homeless Mind. New York; Random House 1973

Bosk, Charles, Cybernetic Hasidism: An essay on Social and Religious Change. Sociological Inquiry, 1974, 44(2), 131-44

Bosk, Charles, The routinization of charisma: The case of the Zaddik. Sociological Inquiry, 1979, 49(2-3), 150-167

Buber, Martin, Tales of the Hasidim. New York: Schocken Books, 1947

Buber, Martin, Hasidism and the Modern Man. New York: Horizon Press, 1958

Butler, John, Awash in a Sea of Faith. The Christianization of the American People, 1550-1865. Cambridge: Harvard University Press

Cohen, Arthur and Garvin, Philip, A People Apart: Hasidim in America. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970

Danzger, M. Herbert, Returning to Tradition: The Contemporary Revival of Orthodox Judaism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Davidman, Lynn, Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991

Dawidowicz, Lucy S., The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967

Dolan, Jay P., Catholic Revivalism: The American Experience, 1830 - 1900. University of Notre Dame Press, 1978

Eliach, Yaffa, Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982

Epstein, Shifra, Drama on a Table: The Bobover Piremshpiyl. in Judaism: Viewed from Within and from Without. Harvey Goldberg (Ed.), Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987

Forman, Robert C., Religions of the World, Third Edition. New York, St. Martin’s Press, Forthcoming, 1992

Freilich, Morris, The Modern Shtetl: A Study of Cultural Persistence. Anthropos, 1962, 57, 45 -54

Geertz, Clifford, The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973

Goldberg, Harvey E. (Ed.) Judaism Viewed from Within and From Without: Anthropological Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987

Green, Arthur, The Zaddiq as Axis Mundi in Later Judaism. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 45 (1977), 328-347

Green, Arthur, Your Word is Fire: Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer. Paulist Press, 1977

Green, Arthur, Tormented Master: A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav. University of Alabama Press, 1980

Green, Arthur, Devotion and Commandment: The Faith of Abraham in the Hasidic Imagination. Hebrew Union College Press, 1986

Green, Arthur, Jewish Spirituality. Crossroads Books, 1986

Harris, Lis, Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1985

Heilman, Samuel, Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry. New York: Schocken Books, 1992

Helmreich, William B., The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982

Hundert, Gershon David (Ed.) Essential Papers on Hasidism: Origins to Present. New York University Press, 1991

Hunter, James Davison and Stephen C. Ainlay (Eds.) Making Sense of Modern Times: Peter L. Berger and the Vision of Interpretive Sociology. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986

Kamen, Robert Mark, Growing Up Hasidic: Education and Socialization in the Bobover Hasidic Community. New York: AMS Press, 1985

Kaufman, Debra R., Women who return to Orthodox Judaism: A feminist analysis. Journal of Marriage and the Family. 1985, (47), 543-555

Koskoff, Ellen, Some Aspects of Musical Acculturation Among Lubavitcher Hasidim. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Working Papers in Yiddish and East European Studies, #32, New York, 1978

Koskoff, Ellen, The Sound of a Woman’s Voice: Gender and Music in an American Hasidic Community. Paper presented at the 85th American Anthropological Association Meetings in Philadelphia, 1986

Kranzler, George, Williamsburg: A Thirty Year Follow-Up Study. In publication.

Kranzler, George, Williamsburg: A Jewish Community in Transition, New York: Philip Feldheim, 1961

Kranzler, George and Herzberg, Arthur, The Face of Faith: An American Hasidic Community. Baltimore: Baltimore Hebrew College Press, 1972


Kraybill, Donald B., The Riddle of Amish Culture. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press

Kugelmass, Jack (Ed.) Between Two Worlds: Ethnographic Essays on American Jewry. New York, Cornell University Press, 1988

Kugelmass, Jack, Going Home: How American Jews Invent the Old Country. Northwestern University Press, forthcoming, 1993

Lederhendler, Eli, The Road to Modern Jewish Politics: Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia. New York and Oxford Press, 1989

LeVine, Robert and Campbell, Donald T., Ethnocentrism: Theories of Conflict, Ethnic Attitudes, and Group Behavior. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1972

Levy, Sydelle Brooks, Shifting Patterns of Ethnic Identification Among the Hassidim. in The New Ethnicity: Perspectives from Ethnology. John W. Bennet (Ed.), St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1975

Lowenthal, David, The Past as a Foreign Country. Cambridge University Press, 1985

Marty, Martin, Pilgrims in their Own Land. New York: Viking - Penguin, 1985

Marty, Martin E. & R. Scott Appleby, The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992

Mayer, Egon, From Suburb to Shtetl: The Jews of Boro Park. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979

Mintz, Jerome R., Hasidic People: A Place in the New World. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1992

Mintz, Jerome R., Legends of the Hasidim: An Introduction to Hasidic Culture and Oral Tradition in the New World. University of Chicago Press, 1968

Mintz, Jerome R., Ethnic Activism: the Hasidic example. Judaism, 1979, 28(4), 449-464

Noll, Mark, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. in publication

Pasternak, Velvel, Songs of the Hasidim, Volumes I and II. New York, Tara Publications, 1968-1971

Pinsker, Sanford, Piety as Community: The Hasidic View. Social Research, 1975m 42, 230-246

Poll, Simon, The Hasidic Community of Williamsburg. New York: Free Press, 1962

Poll, Simon, The Role of Yiddish in American Ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Communities. YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science, 1965, 13, 125-152

Rapoport-Albert, Ada, On Women in Hasidism: S. A. Hordecky and the Maid of Ludmir Tradition. in Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky, A. Rapoport-Albert & S.J. Zipperstein (Eds.) London: 1988

Robinson, Ira, The First Hasidic Rabbis in North America. Paper presented at the Association for Jewish Studies Meetings, 1990

Rolland, In Search of Self in India and Japan.

Rotenberg, Mordechai, Damnation and Deviance: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Failure. New York: Free Press, 1978

Rotenberg, Mordechai, Dialogue with Deviance: The Hasidic Ethic and the Theory of Social Contraction. Philadelphia: ISHI, 1983

Rotenberg, Mordechai, Hasidic Contraction: A Model for Interhemispheric Dialogue. Zygon, 1986, 21, 210-217

Rubin, Israel, Chassidic Community Behavior. Anthropological Quarterly. 1964, 37(3), 138-148

Rubin, Israel, Satmar: An Island in the City. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1972

Rubinstein, Aryeh, Hasidism. New York: Leon Amiel Pub., 1975

Scholem, Gerhon, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. New York: Schocken Books, 1941

Shaffir, Stephen, Persistence and change in the Hasidic Family. in The Jewish Family: Myths and Reality. Steven Cohen and Paula Hyman (Eds.) New York: Holmes and Meier, 1986

Sharot, Stephen, Messianism, Mysticism and Magic: An Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982

Siegel, Bernard J, Defensive Structuring and Environmental Stress. American Journal of Sociology, 76(July): 11-32, 1970

Stanislawski, Michael, Tsar Nicholas and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia, 1825-1855. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1983

Trepp, Leo, The Complete Book of Jewish Observance: A Practical Manual for the Modern Jew. New York: Behrman House/Summit Books, 1980

Turner, Victor, The Ritual Process

Wiesel, Elie, Somewhere a Master: Further Hasidic Portraits and Legends. New York: Summit Books, 1982

Wiesel, Elie, Four Hasidic Masters and their Struggle Against Melancholy. University of Notre Dame Press, 1978

Wiesel, Elie, Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of the Hasidic Masters. New York: Random House, 1972

Zborowski, Mark and Herzog, Elizabeth, Life is with People: The Culture of the Shtetl. New York: Schocken Books, 1952