The Hasidic community of Williamsburg. / By Solomon Poll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poll, Solomon.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hasidism--New York (State)--New York.

Hasidism.

Jews--Social life and customs.

Jews.

Jews--New York (State)--New York.

Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)--Religion.

Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 308 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Free Press of Glencoe Inc., a division of The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, [1962]

Contents:

Part One. The Problem and its Setting. An unltrareligious group; The structure of the Jewish community in Hungary; The structure of the Jewish community in the United States; The transplantation of Hasidic culture; The threat of assimilation; The Hasidic family; The social stratification of the Hasidic community; Organizations and social control: The operation of social forces

Part Two. Economic Activities of the Hasidic Community. The general patterns of Hasidic economic behavior; The Hasidic oocupational hierarchy: religious and professional services; The Hasidic occupational hierarchy: nonprofessional occupations; A sociological analysis of the Hasidic community.

Notes:

Based on thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennyslvania.

Map of Williamsburg on front lining papers. Back lining papers have "warnings by the Rabbinical Congress reproduced in Hebrew and English.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-291) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autographs of "Chaim Potok" and "Herman Potok April 1962 Philadelphia".

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations throughout.

OCLC:

530658