Waiting for the Messiah in Williamsburg

How did the Satmar Hasidim come to dominate the Brooklyn neighborhood known as Williamsburg? And why there? In this meticulously researched new book, Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper offer a revealing and nuanced portrait of the place where the Satmars, who are today the largest American-based Hasidic group, reconstituted themselves after the Holocaust.

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