The 2023 Gruss Lecture in Talmudic Civil Law: AMERICAN SHTETL: THE MAKING OF KIRYAS JOEL, A HASIDIC VILLAGE IN UPSTATE NEW YORK

Featuring the 2022 – 2023 Gruss Professor of Talmadic Law:
Nomi M. Stolzenberg, Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair in Law at USC Gould School of Law

Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. Stolzenberg tells the story of how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel has been stunningly successful in creating a world apart by using the very instruments of secular political and legal power that it disavows.

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