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A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its
own local government on American soil Settled 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 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 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.
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