Janet S. Belcove-Shalin is Senior Research Associate in the Southwestern Social Science Research Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Samuel C. Heilman
Introduction: New World Hasidim
Janet S. Belcove-Shalin
1. Boundaries and Self-Presentation among the Hasidim: A Study in Identity Maintenance
William Shaffir
2. HaBaD & Habban: "770's" Impact on a Yemenite Jewish Community in Israel
Laurence D. Loeb
3. The Language of the Heart: Music in Lubavitcher Life
Ellen Koskoff
4. Varieties of Fundamentalist Experience: Lubavitch Hasidic and Fundamentalist Christian Approaches to Contemporary Family Life
Lynn Davidman and Janet Stocks
5. Engendering Orthodoxy: Newly Orthodox Women and Hasidism
Debra R. Kaufman
6. Agents or Victims of Religious Ideology?: Approaches to locating Hasidic Women in Feminist Studies
Bonnie Morris
7. The Economic Revitalization of the Hasidic Community of Williamsburg
George Kranzler
8. Home In Exile: Hasidim in the New World
Janet S.Belcove Shalin
9. The Bobover Hasidim Piremshpiyl:From Folk Drama for Purim to a Ritual of Transcending the Holocaust
Shifra Epstein
10. The Charismatic Leader of the Hasidic Community:The Zaddiq, the Rebbe
Solomon Poll
Contributors
Index