Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One The Literature; Chapter Two Collecting the Data: Beginnings; Chapter Three The Ideal Haredi Male Body and the Struggles between Body and Soul in Haredi Education; Chapter Four Equality or Excellence in Students' Achievements; Chapter Five Holy Amnesia: Remembering Religious Sages as Super-Humans or as Simply Human; Chapter Six Deviating, Resisting and Challenging the Ideal Male Bodily Model; Chapter Seven Psychology and Democracy in the Name of the God? Modern and Secular Discourses on Parenting in the Service of Conservative Religious Aims
Chapter Eight Will the Scholars' Enclave Re-adjust?Bibliography; Names and Subjects Index
Summary
The internal tensions and conflicts central to Haredi Lithuanian yeshivas in contemporary Israel are described with a focus on the rabinical authorities' attempts to respond to these difficulties and the changes the Haredi community is experiencing as a result
