Samuel Heilman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Heilman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Heilman |
| SIGNATURE | HEILMAN S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry
Menachem Friedman
Peter Berger on Religion as Choice Rather than Fate
Hasidism: A New History
The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The story of one of the most compelling religious leaders of modern times From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson—revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe—built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he came to believe that he could deny death and change …
Editor’s Introduction to the Distancing Hypothesis Issue
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion
The importance of residence: Goldscheider's Contribution to Explaining Orthodoxy's Vitality
Separated but not divorced
Jews and the New American Scene
The holocaust: Brief comments on recent books
Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry
In this first in-depth portrait of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel today, Samuel Heilman introduces a community that to many may seem to be the very embodiment of the Jewish past. To outsiders who stumble upon these neighborhoods and find bearded men in caftans, children with earlocks, and women in long dresses, black kerchiefs and stockings, it may appear that these people still hold fast to every tradition while turning their backs to the contemp…
Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry
Journal Article Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry. By Samuel Heilman. (New York: Schocken, 1992. xxii + 394 pp. Cloth, $27.50, ISBN 0-8052-4095-0. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8052-1007-5.) Get access Pamela S. Nadell Pamela S. Nadell American University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 354–355, https://doi.org/10…
Defenders of the Faith
Epilogue: Ethnographic Afterwords
The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry . William B. Helmreich
Constructing orthodoxy
Synagogue Life
Synagogue Life by Samuel Heilman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. 306 pp. $12.95 Get access Arthur St. George Arthur St. George University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 38, Issue 1, Spring 1977, Pages 79–81, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709842 Published: 01 March 1977
Synagogue Life
Synagogue Life by Samuel Heilman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. 306 pp. $12.95 Get access Arthur St. George Arthur St. George University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 38, Issue 1, Spring 1977, Pages 79–81, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709842 Published: 01 March 1977
Constructing orthodoxy
The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry . William B. Helmreich
Defenders of the Faith
Epilogue: Ethnographic Afterwords
Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry
Journal Article Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry. By Samuel Heilman. (New York: Schocken, 1992. xxii + 394 pp. Cloth, $27.50, ISBN 0-8052-4095-0. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8052-1007-5.) Get access Pamela S. Nadell Pamela S. Nadell American University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 354–355, https://doi.org/10…
The holocaust: Brief comments on recent books
Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry
In this first in-depth portrait of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel today, Samuel Heilman introduces a community that to many may seem to be the very embodiment of the Jewish past. To outsiders who stumble upon these neighborhoods and find bearded men in caftans, children with earlocks, and women in long dresses, black kerchiefs and stockings, it may appear that these people still hold fast to every tradition while turning their backs to the contemp…
Jews and the New American Scene
Separated but not divorced
The importance of residence: Goldscheider's Contribution to Explaining Orthodoxy's Vitality
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion
The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The story of one of the most compelling religious leaders of modern times From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson—revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe—built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he came to believe that he could deny death and change …
Editor’s Introduction to the Distancing Hypothesis Issue
Hasidism: A New History
Menachem Friedman
Peter Berger on Religion as Choice Rather than Fate
Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry
Philosophy (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (9 works) · History (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (7 works) · Theology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)