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Samuel Heilman

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#979

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#357

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PhD Sociology Columbia University
Masters Sociology Columbia University
Bachelors Sociology Brooklyn College

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According to Wikipedia, Samuel C. Heilman is a professor of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York, who focuses on social ethnography of contemporary Jewish Orthodox movements. Personal Heilman was born in May, 1946, to Henry and Lucia Heilman, both Polish survivors of the Holocaust who were saved by Oskar Schindler. After World War II, the family went to West Germany with the encouragement of the American occupation forces, who wanted a Jewish presence there. Heilman is married to Ellin Marcia Heilman, a psychologist in private practice. Together, they live in New Rochelle, New York and have four children - Adam, Uriel, Avram, and Jonah.

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Samuel Heilman's Published Works

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Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry. (1993) (175)
Synagogue Life: A Study in Symbolic Interaction (1976) (87)
Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy (2006) (77)
Cosmopolitans and Parochials: Modern Orthodox Jews in America (1991) (75)
The people of the book : drama, fellowship, and religion (1984) (63)
The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson (2010) (59)
Value-sensitive therapy: learning from ultra-orthodox patients. (1997) (56)
A community in spite of itself : Soviet Jewish émigrés in New York (1994) (45)
Portrait of American Jews : the last half of the 20th century (1996) (44)
Toward Modernity: The European Jewish Model (1988) (37)
All in faith: Religion as the idiom and means of coping with distress (2000) (35)
Hasidism: A New History (2017) (23)
When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son (2001) (22)
The Sociology of American Jewry: The Last Ten Years (1982) (19)
The Haredim In Israel: Who Are They and What Do They Want? (1996) (18)
Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century (1995) (18)
Patients, chaperons and healers: enlarging the therapeutic encounter. (1994) (18)
Defenders of the Faith (1992) (17)
Portrait of American Jews (1995) (14)
THE MANY FACES OF ORTHODOXY (1982) (14)
Editor’s Introduction to the Distancing Hypothesis Issue (2010) (13)
Defenders of the faith : inside ultra-Orthodox Jewry (1995) (13)
The people of the book (1983) (12)
Jews and fundamentalism (2005) (12)
The Vision from the Madrasa and Bes Medrash: Some Parallels between Islam and Judaism (1996) (11)
The death of an American Jewish community (1991) (10)
Inside the Jewish School: A Study of the Cultural Setting for Jewish Education (1983) (9)
The Gift of Alms: (1975) (9)
THE MANY FACES OF ORTHODOXY Part II (1982) (6)
Prayer in the orthodox synagogue: An analysis of ritual display (1982) (6)
A walker in Jerusalem (1986) (5)
Editor’s Introduction for the Special Issue on Jewish Demography in the United States (2013) (5)
Foreword: Contemporary Jewry (2005) (5)
Sounds of Modern Orthodoxy: The Language of Talmud Studies (1981) (5)
Synagogue Life: A Study in Symbolic Interaction. (1977) (4)
Ritual Variation among Modern Orthodox Jews in the United States (1986) (4)
As Goffman Was Talking about Remedial Interchanges, He Took a Glass of Water and Spilled It on Rosenberg’s Lap (2009) (3)
The Americanness of American Jews (2015) (3)
The importance of residence: goldscheider’s contribution to explaining orthodoxy’s vitality (2002) (3)
How did fundamentalism manage to infiltrate contemporary orthodoxy? (2005) (3)
Who Will Lead Us (2018) (3)
A Face to Believe In: Contemporary Pictorial Images of Orthodox Rabbis and What They Represent (2004) (2)
What’s in a Name? The Dilemma of Title and Geography for Contemporary Hasidism (2013) (2)
THE ETHNOGRAPHY BEHIND DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH (2009) (2)
American Modern Orthodoxy : Confronting Cultural Challenges (2004) (2)
The Gate Behind the Wall: A Pilgrimage to Jerusalem (1984) (2)
THE TOURIST: A NEW THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS. By Dean MacCannell. New York: Schocken, 1976. 214 pp. Cloth, $12.95; paper, $5.95 (1977) (2)
Separated but not divorced (1999) (2)
Ethnography and biography, or what happened when i asked people to tell me the story of their lives as Jews (2000) (1)
Thoughts on the Study of the Orthodox Community: After Thirty-Five Years (2008) (1)
The House of Assembly (2017) (1)
The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America (review) (2012) (1)
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion (2007) (1)
Symposium -- What We Have Learned (1997) (1)
Orthodox Jews, the City and the Suburb (1999) (1)
On Writing about the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe and His Hasidim* (2011) (1)
Forum on Contemporary American Jewry: Grounds for Optimism or Pessimism? (2019) (1)
Pornography and Social Deviance (1974) (1)
Jewish Unity and Diversity: A Survey of American Rabbis and Rabbinical Students (1991) (1)
In Search of the Present: Synagogue Ethnography (1985) (1)
Constructing orthodoxy (1978) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2013) (0)
REVIEW: Sanity and Sanctity: Mental Health Work Among the Ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem. By David Greenberg and Eliezer Witztum. (2003) (0)
Chapter 6. On a Mission from the Rebbe in Life (2010) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2013) (0)
Chapter 4. Entering the Court of Lubavitch (2010) (0)
Menachem Friedman (2020) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2012) (0)
The holocaust: Brief comments on recent books (1995) (0)
Choosing to be Jews: a Sociological Reflection on American Jews Since 1950, pt. 3 (1993) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2009) (0)
Sliding to the Right (Leo Davids) (2007) (0)
The House of Study (2017) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2012) (0)
Background, Beginnings, and Definitions (2017) (0)
Menachem Friedman (2020) (0)
The Orthodox, the Ultra-Orthodox, and the Elections for the Twelfth Knesset (2019) (0)
Kinship and Class: A Midwestern Study. Bernard Farber (1972) (0)
Hasidic People: A Place in the New World. JEROME R. MINTZ (1994) (0)
Editor’s introduction (2006) (0)
Editor's Introduction (2009) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2012) (0)
The Aftermath of Death: Collective Reintegration and Dealing with Chaos in Light of the Disaster of September 11 (2018) (0)
Book Review:The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry William B. Helmreich (1988) (0)
Thoughts on Reading Hillel Halkin’s After One Hundred and Twenty (2019) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2011) (0)
Marc Shapiro. Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2015. 347 pp. (2016) (0)
What’s in a Name? The Dilemma of Title and Geography for Contemporary Hasidism (2013) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2012) (0)
American Jews, Ethnicity, Attachment, and the Role of Israel (2009) (0)
Chapter 5. From Survival to Uforatzto (2010) (0)
American Jewish Disunity: An Overview (1986) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2014) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2011) (0)
Chapter 5. Orthodoxy in an American Synagogue (2019) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2012) (0)
Back Matter (1979) (0)
Death, Bereavement, and Mourning (2018) (0)
Chapter 7. From Resurrection to Death We Want Moshiach Now (2010) (0)
Jews of Brooklyn (2004) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2010) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2009) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2014) (0)
There are Two Clocks in the House of Study (1983) (0)
Editor’s foreword (1999) (0)
Chapter 1. Farbrengen The Gathering of the Emissaries (2010) (0)
Wildlife Activity Patterns at a Constructed Wetland Based On Trail Cam Monitoring (2019) (0)
Chapter 8. On a Mission from the Rebbe in His Afterlife (2010) (0)
Editor’s Final Introduction (2014) (0)
Jewish Continuity and Change: Emerging Patterns in America.Calvin Goldscheider (1988) (0)
From Hatred to Love: Is it Good—or Bad—for the Jews? (2017) (0)
Return to Judaism: Religious Renewal in Israel.Janet Aviad (1985) (0)
Passing on the Message: Children and Synagogue Life (1997) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2012) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2014) (0)
Automatic defibrillation : from concept to reality (1995) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2014) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2014) (0)
Memories of Michael Rosenak (2014) (0)
Succession in Contemporary Hasidism (2018) (0)
Chapter 3. Coming of Age in a Time of Transition (2010) (0)
Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940.Ewa Morawska (1996) (0)
The Rebbes of ChaBaD (2010) (0)
Jewish Identities in France: An Analysis of Contemporary French Jewry.Dominique Schnapper , Arthur Goldhammer (1985) (0)
Chapter 2. Death and Resurrection (2010) (0)
Glossary of Hasidic and Lubavitcher Terms (2010) (0)
Where Have All the Rabbis Gone? (2019) (0)
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, by Israel Shahak. (Pluto Middle Eastern Series) 127 pages, notes, index. Chicago, IL: Pluto Press, 1997. $16.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-7453-0819-8 (2001) (0)
The House of Prayer: The Cast of Characters (2017) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2011) (0)
הרבי מלובביץ' : מנחם מנדל שניאורסון, בחייו ובחיים שלאחר חייו (2011) (0)
Aryei Fishman, Judaism and Modernization on the Religious Kibbutz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 202 pp. (1996) (0)
Ritual Variation among Orthodox Jews in the United States (1986) (0)
Peter Berger on Religion as Choice Rather than Fate (2020) (0)
Thoughts on Reading Hillel Halkin’s After One Hundred and Twenty (2019) (0)
Peter Berger on Religion as Choice Rather than Fate (2020) (0)
10. Where Have All the Rabbis Gone? The Changing Character of the Orthodox Rabbinate and its Causes (2019) (0)
Drama as Social Research (1984) (0)
What I Learned from the Pew Report on Orthodox Jews in America (2017) (0)
A Tale Of Two Cities - A Report of the Committee on the Stabilization of the Jewish Family (1990) (0)
WHO WILL LEAD US: THE STORY OF FIVE HASIDIC DYNASTIES IN AMERICA. By Samuel C.Heilman. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017. Pp. xvii + 318; plates. $29.95. (2017) (0)
Boyan and Kopyczynitz (2018) (0)
Singing, Swaying, Appeals, and Arguments (2017) (0)
Books Received (2018) (0)
Editor’s Final Introduction (2014) (0)
Strangers in Their Midst: Small-Town Jews and Their Neighbors.Peter I. Rose , Liv Olson Pertzoff (1979) (0)
Editor’s Introduction (2014) (0)
Editor’s introduction to volume 27 (2007) (0)
Editor’s Introduction for the Special Issue on Jewish Demography in the United States (2013) (0)

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