Originally published in JJSO, 26:2 (1984), pp. 154-6. Samuel C. Heilman, The People of the Book: Drama, Fellowship and Religion, x + 337 pp., University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1983, $22.50. Using the tools and with the aims of the social anthropologist, Samuel C. Heilman examines a unique institution, the nightly or weekly gathering of men,…
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