FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION PART I: CULTURE AND SOCIETY A ?Demographic Hybrid?: Haredi Demography in the Early Twenty-first Century, by Daniel Staetsky Serving the Jews, Serving the Empire: Discursive Hierarchy and Messianic Temporality in Russian Chabad, by Galina Zelenina Innovation and Conservatism in Hasidic Pop Culture and Language, by Chaya R. Nove Communal Self-Regulation and State Law: The Case of the ?Kosher Cellphone in Israel?s Ultra-Orthodox Community?, by Shuki Friedman Stuck in Neutral: Some Ethnographic Reflections on Haredim, Education, and the State, by Lea Taragin-Zeller PART II: POLITICS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Kosher Socialism? A History of Haredi Judaism and the Left, by Nathaniel Deustch Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and the State of Israel: New Perspectives, by Itamar Ben Ami From a Negligible Minority to a Rising Force: Three Formative Events in Post-1977 Haredi History, by Benjamin Brown The Haredi Parties and the Rightist Camp in Israel 1948?2022: From Preference to Default, by Nissim Leon Politics, National Identity, and Democracy: A Comparison of Haredi Political Attitudes and Behavior in the United States and Israel, by Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe, David N. Myers, Mark Trencher, and Chaya Lehrfield-Trop ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE.