Member of a strict Jewish sect

Usage examples of hasid.

The Nazis most despised the pious Hasids of the Aguda, and they knew the Bundists and the Communists would never act as their tools.

Hasidim believe, why do you still wear the attire and earlocks of Hasidim?

If you are lucky enough to cram yourself into the Lubavitcher synagogue in Brooklyn on a festive holiday, you may catch a glimpse of the dancing Hasidim, but you will find that nowadays vodka, rather than inspired song, induces bliss.

Habad system was more in touch with the needs of the coming times, for the Lubavitcher Hasidim are the only branch of the movement still thriving today.

All the crippled pilgrims in the Via Dolorosa, the black-hatted Hasidim, the Greek priests, Armenian monks, the men at prayer on patterned carpets in the mosquesthese streams of belief made me uneasy.

The Pharisees, Hasidim, and others resenting these impieties rose presently in a revolt that was put down with the greatest cruelty by the reigning Alexander Jannaeus (r.