Format:
xxi, 400 pages
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illustrations
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23 cm
ISBN:
0520221125
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9780520221123
Note:
"First California printing"--Title page verso
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Originally published: New York, Schocken Books, 1992
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"With a new afterword.
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Mikveh: taking the plunge -- Who are the Haredim? -- Community -- A Bar Mitzvah in Belz -- Binding ties -- At the Rebbe's table -- This is who we are -- Purim: this is who we are not -- Mass pilgrimage -- Third meal -- Education -- A school for little Haredim -- Primary school -- Where are we? -- The Yeshiva: Mussar Shmues -- The Yeshiva: Shiur and Chavruse -- Rosh Yeshiva -- Passages: matchmaking, betrothal, and wedding -- Passages: funeral -- Passing signs: the writing on the wall -- The triumph of sex -- Scribal apotheosis -- Epilogue: Ethnographic afterwords -- Afterword to the new edition
Language:
English
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