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American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York by Nomi M. Stolzenberg eBook Malka learns not only aNational Jewish Book Award Winner A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soilSettled in the mid 1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish historybut many precedents among religious communities in the United States. This book tells the story of how this group of pious, Yiddish speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving