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PHILIP FISHMAN grew up in the Brooklyn Jewish neighborhood ofWilliamsburg during the 1950s, when the community experienced a largeinflux of Hasidic Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe and the neighborhoodevolved from a multi-ethnic Jewishly heterodox community similar to 'Jewish'areas in other parts of New York City into a tightly knit re-invention of anultra-pious East European shtetl. The culture and values of the new arrivalsoften conflicted sharply with the older community. The fault lines of thiskulturkampf were the context of his childhood-and these memoirs vividlydescribe the personal, familial, and communal tensions associated with thissocial transformation. Williamsburg’s metamorphosis into an exclusively haredienclave was the first of its kind in the United States, but this neighborhood’sprofound makeover, with the associated community discord, was soon echoedin many other American locales and is occurring in many Israeli communities.The post-war transformation of Williamsburg foreshadowed a dramatic andongoing transformation of American Orthodoxy and-more broadly-American Jewish life in the 21st century.
