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Hasidism, the Jewish revivalist movement begun in 18th century Poland, encourages prayer, mysticism, singing and sanctification of daily life. The Lubavitchers, the largest of some 40 Hasidic sects, today live mostly in Brooklyn's Crown Heights. There Harris befriended a Lubavitcher couple and... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Moshe: Add a description of this character.
- Sheina
- Miriam
- Shmuel
- Aaron
- Dov Baer
- Menachem Mendel
- Sabbatai Zevi
- Rabbi Korf
- Hasidism
- Isaac Luria
- Schneur Zalman
- Tanya
- Bassy
- Schneerson
- Rabbi Schachter
- Scholem
- Teitelbaum
- Rosh Hashanah
- Yehuda
- Tracy
- Yossi
- Mrs. Kline
- Mr. Steingut
Setting & Locations edit
- Israel
- Russia
- New York
- Judaism
- Brooklyn
- Crown Heights
- Manhattan
- Eastern Europe
- Purim
- Vilna
- South Africa
- Palestine
- Williamsburg
- Egypt
- Cape Town
- Poland
- Michigan
- America
- Argentina
- California
- Spain
- Boro Park
- United States
- Canada
- Germany
- St. Petersburg
- Mount Sinai
First Sentence edit
IN the small hours of a cold fall morning, when most of Brooklyn was asleep, some five thousand bearded, dark-hatted men, wearing nearly identical dark suits and coats, danced around a decrepit synagogue, arms clasped.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lis Harris (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 306.088296
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