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Research Article

Discourse, legitimacy, and bottom-to-bottom change: haredi activism to promote secular education in New-York Hasidic Schools

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Pages 141-165 | Received 13 Nov 2020, Accepted 14 Jul 2021, Published online: 24 Jul 2021

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