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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Samuel C. Heilman - The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
Description: Samuel C. Heilman - The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
Professor Samuel C. Heilman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queen College, presents his lecture "The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America" before a roundtable audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ.
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ABOUT THIS LECTURE: The lecture explores the remarkable resurrection of Hasidism in America and its capacity for maintaining the charismatic authority of its dynastic leadership, often via struggle and gripping family dynamics. We will look at two Hasidic dynasties that found themselves with too many successors – Satmar and Bobov – two...