Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground - Hardcover

Eisenberg, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062512226 ISBN 13: 9780062512222

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1995

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

An informative jaunt through the religious experience, ceremony, and tradition of the esoteric Hasidic communities of the world.

About the Author:

Robert Eisenberg was educated at Columbia and Harvard. He has spent several years traveling among the world's Hasidic communities.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0062512226
• ISBN 13: 9780062512222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256