TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stolzenberg,Nomi M.
AU  - Myers,David N.
TI  - American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York 
SN  - 9780691226439
AV  - F129.K68 S76 2021
U1  - 305.69683320974731 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Jews
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Kiryas Joel
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Satmar Hasidim
KW  - History
KW  - Shtetls
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aaron Teitelbaum
KW  - Activism
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Alfred Kazin
KW  - American Jewish Congress
KW  - American Jews
KW  - Anti-Defamation League
KW  - Black Power
KW  - Black separatism
KW  - Brown v. Board of Education
KW  - Chavrusa
KW  - Chief Rabbi
KW  - Christian nationalism
KW  - Christian right
KW  - City on a Hill
KW  - Communitarianism
KW  - Conservative Judaism
KW  - Der Yid
KW  - Desegregation
KW  - Dissenter
KW  - Dissident
KW  - Donald Trump
KW  - Establishment Clause
KW  - Gabbai
KW  - Gentile
KW  - George Pataki
KW  - HaKirya
KW  - Haredi Judaism
KW  - Hasid (term)
KW  - Hugo Black
KW  - Illiberal democracy
KW  - Individual and group rights
KW  - International relations
KW  - Jay Sekulow
KW  - Jewish diaspora
KW  - Jewish history
KW  - Joel (prophet)
KW  - Joel Teitelbaum
KW  - John Winthrop
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Kislev
KW  - Kollel
KW  - Land grant
KW  - Liberal elite
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Libertarian Party (United States)
KW  - Matzo
KW  - Misery (novel)
KW  - Misnagdim
KW  - Mitzvah
KW  - Moral Majority
KW  - Moses
KW  - Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar)
KW  - Moshe Teitelbaum (Ujhel)
KW  - Nazi Germany
KW  - New International Economic Order
KW  - Niddah
KW  - Nuclear arms race
KW  - Of Education
KW  - Orthodox Judaism
KW  - Passover
KW  - Pennsylvania Dutch
KW  - Person of color
KW  - Peter Cole
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Polygamy
KW  - Rabbi
KW  - Race and ethnicity in the United States Census
KW  - Race and ethnicity in the United States
KW  - Rajneesh
KW  - Rajneeshpuram
KW  - Reagan Era
KW  - Rebbe
KW  - Reform Judaism
KW  - Religion
KW  - Ritual purification
KW  - Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Separation of church and state
KW  - Separatism
KW  - Shabbat
KW  - Sheitel
KW  - Shtadlan
KW  - Shtetl
KW  - Society of the United States
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - Supervisor
KW  - Tichel
KW  - Upsherin
KW  - Utopia
KW  - V
KW  - Vaad
KW  - Voting bloc
KW  - Wallace v. Jaffree
KW  - War
KW  - White flight
KW  - Women in Judaism
KW  - World War II
KW  - Yiddish
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; prologue: Approaching Kiryas Joel --; Part I: The past and present of the shtetl --; Chapter 1: Life in the Shtetl --; Chapter 2: Satmar in Europe --; Chapter 3: Satmar in America: From Shtetl to Village --; Part III: Law and religion in the village and beyond --; Chapter 4: Not in America? --; Chapter 5: Only in America! --; Chapter 6: The Law of the Land (Is the Law) --; Part III: Conflict, competition, and the future of Kiryas Joel --; Chapter 7 “Two Kings Serving the Same Crown” --; Epilogue Leaving Kiryas Joel --; Notes --; Glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish Terms --; List of Personalities --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 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 they disavow.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.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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691226439?locatt=mode:legacy
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