NO OF PAGES: 331 SUB CAT I: American Jews SUB CAT II: Hasidism SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: Hasidic Williamsburg recounts the dramatic emergence of this unique community in the face of major crises. It is the story of the loyalty of its members to the rebbes and their teachings and the milieu they created in an old Jewish neighborhood in BrooklynNOTES: SUBTITLE: A Contemporary American Hasidic Community