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Hasidic tales : annotated & explained / by Shapiro, Rami M.(CARDINAL)384330;
Includes bibliographical references (page 193).
Subjects: Legends.; Hasidim; Hasidism.; Jewish legends.; Rabbis;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Uncovered : how I left Hasidic life and finally came home : a memoir / by Lax, Leah,author.(CARDINAL)547875;
In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story--beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline prose, Lax details her experiences with arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and motherhood during her years with the Hasidim, and explores how her creative, sexual, and spiritual longings simmer beneath the surface throughout her time there. The first memoir to tell of a gay woman who spent years in the Hasidic fold, Uncovered is the moving story of Lax's journey toward finding a home where she truly belongs.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Lax, Leah.; Hasidim.; Jewish lesbians.; Jewish lesbians.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Miriam's tambourine : Jewish folktales from around the world / by Schwartz, Howard,1945-(CARDINAL)518588; Bloom, Lloyd.(CARDINAL)722308;
Subjects: Fiction.; Legends.; Jews; Jewish folk literature.; Jewish legends.; Hasidim;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Unorthodox : the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots / by Feldman, Deborah,1986-author.(CARDINAL)395881;
Traces the author's upbringing in a Hasidic community in Brooklyn, describing the strict rules that governed her life, arranged marriage at the age of seventeen, and the birth of her son, which led to her plan to leave and forge her own path in life.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Feldman, Deborah, 1986-; Jews; Hasidim; Hasidim;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 22
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Unorthodox [sound recording] : the scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots / by Feldman, Deborah,1986-author.(CARDINAL)395881; Botchan, Rachel,narrator.(CARDINAL)356704; Campbell, Cassandra,narrator.(CARDINAL)347921;
Read by Rachel Botchan with Cassandra Campbell.Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of strict, oppressive tradition within the Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism. After giving birth at nineteen, she realized for herself and her son, she had to escape.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Autobiographies.; Feldman, Deborah, 1986-; Jews; Hasidim; Hasidim;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The pious ones : the world of Hasidim and their battles with America / by Berger, Joseph,1945-author.(CARDINAL)383985;
Includes bibliographical references."As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to record proportions after near-extinction during the Holocaust, award-winning New York Times journalist and author Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the Hasidim to explore their origins, beliefs, and struggles--and the social and political implications of their expanding presence in America"--
Subjects: Jews; Hasidim; Hasidim;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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All who go do not return : a memoir / by Deen, Shulem,author.(CARDINAL)619340;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308)."Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world--only that it is to be shunned. His marriage at eighteen is arranged and several children soon follow. Deen's first transgression--turning on the radio--is small, but his curiosity leads him to the library, and later the Internet. Soon he begins a feverish inquiry into the tenets of his religious beliefs, until, several years later, his faith unravels entirely. Now a heretic, he fears being discovered and ostracized from the only world he knows. His relationship with his family at stake, he is forced into a life of deception, and begins a long struggle to hold on to those he loves most: his five children. In All Who Go Do Not Return, Deen bravely traces his harrowing loss of faith, while offering an illuminating look at a highly secretive world."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Deen, Shulem.; Skvira Hasidim; Jewish heretics;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Shmutz : a novel / by Berliner, Felicia,author.;
"An arranged marriage is expected for Raizl, but she's not like the other young women in her Hasidic sect in Brooklyn. Raizl has a college scholarship to study accounting, a part-time job that supports her family, and a hidden computer making it all possible. That's where she finds the porn, through the slippery slope of an innocent Google search. As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at night, her daytime life begins to unravel. The porn is thrilling, cracking open a world of desire and experience that is becoming irresistible to Raizl-but it also threatens to tear her away from the family she loves. As the novel moves between Raizl's combative visits to the shrink she requested, arranged dates, and loving but complicated exchanges with her family, readers will be drawn to confront their own paradoxical sexuality and the trade-offs we all make for the sake of stability and familial love. A singular, compulsively readable debut, Shmutz explores what it means to be a fully-realized sexual and spiritual being amidst the contradictory messages of both the traditional and modern world"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Fiction.; Hasidim; Young women; Jewish families;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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I am forbidden [sound recording] : a novel / by Markovits, Anouk.(CARDINAL)682666;
Read by Rosalyn Landor. A novel spanning four decades, from pre-World War II Transylvania to contemporary New York, looks at the cause and effect of both belief and non-belief within the Jewish religion, in a tale that focuses on the relationship of two sisters within a Hasidic sect.
Subjects: Hasidim -- Fiction.; Jews -- Fiction.; Sisters -- Fiction.; Family secrets -- Fiction.; Historical fiction.; Jewish fiction.; Audiobooks.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sages and dreamers : biblical, talmudic, and hasidic portraits and legends / by Wiesel, Elie,1928-2016.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Meditations.; Bible.; Talmud; Talmud; Hasidim;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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