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"Heilman is one of the most productive, interesting, and important sociologists writing about Jewish communities in the world today. This book is a significant snapshot, filled with Heilman's fine-grained observations of particular cultural practices such as humor, posters, and Rabbi portraits. Heilman is a first-rate thinker, an excellent researcher whose work is richly empirical, and an unusually clear and lively writer."--Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of "Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and HeritageHeilman, Samuel C. is the author of 'Sliding to the Right The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy', published 2006 under ISBN 9780520247635 and ISBN 0520247639.
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