Just as this border marks the boundaries of the sacred community, so distinctions in language, dress, hairstyle, and demeanor serve Hasidim as personal boundaries, protecting the separation of an ...

Ansky’s 1916 play titled Dybbuk. The play is about a young Hasidic woman who becomes possessed by the spirit of her dead lover, and Landau’s salt-encrusted gown is a replica of the one worn in ...