Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination

Nora Rubel

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Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14187-1
$24.50 / £17.00

December, 2009
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14186-4
$79.50 / £55.00

Introduction: A Family Feud

1. Orthodoxy and Nostalgia in the American Jewish Imagination

2. Rebbes’ Daughters: The New Chosen

3. The New Jewish Gothic

4. Muggers in Black Coats

Conclusion: They Are Us in Other Clothes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• American Literature
• American Religion
• Judaism

Series

• Religion and American Culture

About the Author

Nora L. Rubel is assistant professor of religion and classics at the University of Rochester and teaches courses on American Judaism, religion and ethnicity, and religion in relation to American foodways.

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