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01Evidence and context
American ultra-Orthodox growth was led by Satmar's Joel Teitelbaum, Lubavitch's Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and Bobov's Shlomo Halberstam. Around 2000, Orthodox Jews were 7 to 9 percent of American Jewry. Probably about half of that group, some 350,000 people, were Hasidim.
§ 01Geography
Where it happened
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§ 05Bibliography
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§ 06Apparatus
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