- Summary
- Boychiks in the Hood is your passport to the Hasidic "underworld" - a destination far different from popular expectations. When Robert Eisenberg, a secular Jew from Omaha, Nebraska, decided to investigate his family's distant Satmar connections, he unknowingly embarked on a journey that would carry him around the world and into the hearts and lives of the Hasidim.
Armed with a loving curiosity and the Yiddish his grandmother taught him as a child, Eisenberg found himself intimately drawn into the sometimes nutty, often inspiring, lives of these most traditional of Jews. Join Eisenberg as he hangs out with an ex-Deadhead in Antwerp, makes a pilgrimage to the grave of the revered Rebbe Nachman in the Ukraine, munches mini-bagels with Roller-blading kosher butchers in Minnesota, talks about sex with a karate champion turned rabbi in Israel, and more.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Eisenberg, Robert.
- Published
- [San Francisco, CA] : HarperSanFrancisco, 1996
- Locale
- United States
- Edition
- First HarperCollins paperback edition
- Contents
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A map of the Hasidim: an introduction
Boychiks in the hood: Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Boss of the Bobovs: Boro Park, Brooklyn
Leave it to Tcheeva: St. Paul, Minnesota
Fairfax fandango: Los Angeles, California
Uman, Uman, Rosh Hashanah: Uman, Ukraine
The last of the just: Dombrova, Poland
Deadheads and diamond cutters: Antwerp, Belgium
Lake Oybegone: Postville, Iowa
Haredi Harvard: Lakewood, New Jersey
Bungalow summer: The Catskills, New York
Down on the farm: Kfar Chabad and Koyme Miyus, Israel
Epilogue
Glossary.
- Notes
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"A Tree clause book"--Title page verso.
A map of the Hasidim: an introduction -- Boychiks in the hood: Williamsburg, Brooklyn -- Boss of the Bobovs: Boro Park, Brooklyn -- Leave it to Tcheeva: St. Paul, Minnesota -- Fairfax fandango: Los Angeles, California -- Uman, Uman, Rosh Hashanah: Uman, Ukraine -- The last of the just: Dombrova, Poland -- Deadheads and diamond cutters: Antwerp, Belgium -- Lake Oybegone: Postville, Iowa -- Haredi Harvard: Lakewood, New Jersey -- Bungalow summer: The Catskills, New York -- Down on the farm: Kfar Chabad and Koyme Miyus, Israel -- Epilogue -- Glossary.
