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A warm, plain-language introduction to the Chassidic world: its history from the Baal Shem Tov, its rebbes and dynasties, and its daily customs, nusach, dress and communities.

A warm guide to the Hungarian and Oberlander Jewish world — its history of fierce traditionalism, the Chasam Sofer and Pressburg, the Oberland–Unterland divide, beloved foods, and how the kehilla rebuilt after the Shoah.

A warm introduction to the world of the Yekkes — German Jewry: its history, its towering gedolim, its decorum-filled shuls, its cherished minhagim from the wimpel to berches, and the pinktlich spirit that still shapes Klal Yisroel today.