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Author Levine, Stephanie Wellen.

Title Mystics, mavericks, and merrymakers [electronic resource] : an intimate journey among hasidic girls / Stephanie Wellen Levine ; foreword by Carol Gilligan.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2003.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiv, 254 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : what I sought, what I found -- The community : a cultural and psychological tour -- The cast -- Esther (Estie) Gutman : wild times and holy designs -- Rochel Lehrer : evolving, not rebelling -- Nechama Dina (Dini) Rockoff : chutzpah and holiness -- Chaya Jacobson : doubter and believer -- Gittel Kassin : medicine and marriage -- Malka (Malkie) Belfer : miniskirts and the messiah -- Leah Ratner : mystic and maverick -- Into the future : adulthood and insights from the hasidim.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Teenage girls -- Religious life -- New York (State) -- New York.
Jewish teenagers -- Religious life -- New York (State) -- New York.
Habad -- Religious life -- New York (State) -- New York.
Teenage girls -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.
Jewish teenagers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.
Habad -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.
Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Religious life.
Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 081475192X (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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