Hasidic Williamsburg

A Contemporary American Hasidic Community

By: George Kranzler

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Hardcover | 1 January 1995

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Hasidic Williamsburg recounts the dramatic emergence of this unique community in the face of major crises. It is the story of the loyalty of its members to their rebbes and their teachings and to the milieu they created in an old Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Based on his previous book Williamsburg: A Jewish Community in Transition, which reported the transformation of this moderately Orthodox Jewish community and its rise to prominence after the influx of numbers of refugees from Nazi persecution and the Holocaust, George Kranzler presents the findings of a decade of research into the survival and life-style of Hasidic Williamsburg as a functioning community. Hasidic Williamsburg portrays the desperate struggle and relentless efforts of its leaders, foremost among them the Rebbe of Satmar and other prominent hasidic rebbes, to stem the progressive disintegration of the Jewish neighborhood. It presents their valiant attempts to provide the vital resources for its survival in the face of persistent poverty and other grave problems and to develop programs that would secure the future of this unique hasidic community. Kranzler concludes with the assertion that at the beginning of the '90s its inhabitants are hopeful of being able to weather the present crisis and to continue to function as one of pluralist America's viable religious communities.

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Preface
Introduction
Residential Patterns: The Jewish Triangle	p. 1
The Study Area: The Jewish Triangle	p. 9
The Public Housing Projects	p. 16
Ethnic Minorities	p. 21
The Hasidic Community	p. 23
The Economic Revitalization of the Hasidic Community of Williamsburg: The Spirit of Enterprise	p. 29
Patterns of Education: Jewish Education with a Future	p. 53
Differences between the Hasidic Schools and the Orthodox Nonhasidic Day Schools and Yeshivot	p. 56
Teachers and Administrators	p. 64
Special Education	p. 66
Adult Education	p. 69
Public and Parochial Schools in Williamsburg	p. 71
The Structure of the Family: No Generation Gap	p. 75
Rav: The Case History of an American Hasidic Family	p. 98
Social Structure and Community Leadership	p. 105
Status Symbols	p. 127
Social Mobility	p. 130
New Patterns of the Synagogue	p. 137
The Role of the Rabbi	p. 141
Types of Services	p. 146
Customs and Mores	p. 149
The Role of Women in the Synagogue	p. 153
Ashkenazic Synagogues in the New Williamsburg	p. 158
The Women of Hasidic Williamsburg	p. 167
Methodological Note	p. 167
Family Patterns	p. 169
The Divorced and Widowed	p. 200
The Single Women	p. 203
Patterns of Political Activism: The Dynamics of a New Spirit	p. 207
The Spirit of Political Activism	p. 208
The Political Structure	p. 215
Jewish Political and Interhasidic Activism	p. 222
Interhasidic Relations	p. 227
Patterns of Social Welfare: The Spirit of a Community	p. 233
Social Welfare Programs in the Hasidic Community of Williamsburg	p. 237
Summary Conclusion	p. 259
Appendix A: The Voice of Williamsburg: Mass Media in a Hasidic Community	p. 261
Appendix B: The Saint and Sage of Williamsburg: The Satmar Rebbe	p. 267
Appendix C: Maps and Tables	p. 285
Notes	p. 291
Glossary	p. 297
References	p. 309
Acknowledgments	p. 313
Index	p. 315
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