Samuel C Heilman
Samuel C. Heilman is the Harold Proshansky Professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York and on the faculty of Queens College. He is the author of "The People of the Book, The Gate Behind the Wall, " "A Walker in Jerusalem", and Synagogue Life: A Study in Symbolic Interaction (available from Transaction).
Samuel C. Heilman is the Harold Proshansky Professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York and on the faculty of Queens College. He is the author of "The People of the Book, The Gate Behind the Wall, " "A Walker in Jerusalem", and Synagogue Life: A Study in Symbolic Interaction (available from Transaction). See less
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Samuel C Heilman book reviews
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Who Will Lead Us?: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
He could have done better
Samuel Heilman is an eminent sociologist and ethnographer. However, his chapter on Chabad Lubavitch is sorely deficient. It is as though he had few primary sources and informants.
This contrasts ... Read More
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A Walker in Jerusalem
Being there
I love walking around the Old City...and this is a great companion book to remember the sites, to relate more info, or to prepare oneself for a trip. Read More
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Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry
HASSIDIM HASSID SATMAR CHABAD JUDAISM BOBOV
An ethnographer's safari into the black-and-white world of Ultra-Orthodox Jews. To the subjects of this rare study, Heilman, an adherent of Modern-Orthodox Judaism, was both an insider and an ... Read More
