ABSTRACT
Not far from the New Jersey Turnpike, where Simon and Garfunkel were looking for America, lives a group of people who are not looking for America at all. In fact, they do not even want America to find them. This is the Satmar community, a group of Jews mostly of Hungarian descent for whom resisting modernity is a strong community marker. They believe that modernity's attack on them — in their eyes the last bastion of true, authentic Judaism — is the last battle before the coming of the Messiah and final redemption.
