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Author | : Jonathan Boyarin |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0823239020 |
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This story of one of the last remaining synagogues in the historic neighborhood and its congregation is “as absorbing as a good cinema verité documentary” (Booklist). On New York’s Lower East Side, a narrow building, wedged into a lot designed for an old-law tenement, is full of clamorous voices—the generations of the dead, who somehow contrive to make their presence known, and the newer generation, keeping the building and its memories alive and making themselves Jews in the process. In this book, Jonathan Boyarin, at once a member of the congregation and a bemused anthropologist, follows this congregation of “year-round Jews” through the course of a summer during which its future must once again be decided. Famous as the jumping off point for millions of Jewish and other immigrants to America, the neighborhood has recently become the hip playground of twentysomething immigrants to the city from elsewhere in America and from abroad. Few imagine that Jewish life there has stubbornly continued through this history of decline and regeneration. Yet, inside with Boyarin, we see the congregation’s life as a combination of quiet heroism, ironic humor, lively disputes, and—above all—the ongoing search for ways to connect with Jewish ancestors while remaining true to oneself in the present. Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul is both a portrait of a historic neighborhood facing the challenges of gentrification, and a poignant, humorous chronicle of vibrant, imperfect, down-to-earth individuals coming together to make a community.
Author | : Jonathan Boyarin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : 9780823249428 |
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The Stanton Street Shul is one of the last remaining Jewish congregations on New York's historic Lower East Side. This narrow building wedged into a lot designed for an old-law tenement is full of clamorous voices - the generations of the dead who somehow contrive to make their presence known, and the newer generation keeping the building and its memories alive and to make themselves as Jews in the process. The book follows this congregation of 'year-round Jews' through the course of a summer when its future must once again be decided.
Author | : Jonathan Boyarin |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0823239004 |
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This is a narrative ethnography, in journal form, documenting the life of a small Orthodox Jewish congregation on the Lower East Side of New York in the summer of 2008. The text focuses on the arrival of a newer generation of congregants who are both younger and more transient than the previous immigrant generation. The synagogue and its social life are also portrayed as a microcosm of the gentrification of the neighborhood and resistance to that gentrification.
Author | : Jonathan Boyarin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0691203989 |
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"This book is an ethnographic description of the experiences of the author at a yeshiva located near his home on New York's Lower East Side, Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem (MTJ). Jonathan Boyarin spent a good deal of time at MTJ in the 1980s, before his anthropological training, and returned to it in 2011 when he once again became a regular visitor and participant. This book, in essence, is a portrait of life in this yeshiva. Boyarin introduces the MTJ yeshiva and its place in the wider American Jewish community, then takes up the daily patterns, rituals, and rhythms of the place"--
Author | : Gerard R. Wolfe |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0823250008 |
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The classic book on the Lower East Side's synagogues and their congregations, past and present-now back in print in a completely revised and expanded edition
Author | : Jonathan Boyarin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0691207690 |
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An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning New York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway. Yeshiva Days is Jonathan Boyarin's uniquely personal account of the year he spent as both student and observer at Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem, and a poignant chronicle of a side of Jewish life that outsiders rarely see. Boyarin explores the yeshiva's relationship with the neighborhood, the city, and Jewish and American culture more broadly, and brings vividly to life its routines, rituals, and rhythms. He describes the compelling and often colorful personalities he encounters each day, and introduces readers to the Rosh Yeshiva, or Rebbi, the moral and intellectual head of the yeshiva. Boyarin reflects on the tantalizing meanings of "study for its own sake" in the intellectually vibrant world of traditional rabbinic learning, and records his fellow students' responses to his negotiation of the daily complexities of yeshiva life while he also conducts anthropological fieldwork. A richly mature work by a writer of uncommon insight, wit, and honesty, Yeshiva Days is the story of a place on the Lower East Side with its own distinctive heritage and character, a meditation on the enduring power of Jewish tradition and learning, and a record of a different way of engaging with time and otherness.
Author | : Nathaniel Deutsch |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300258372 |
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The epic story of Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification of Brooklyn "A rich chronicle of the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg. . . . This expert account enlightens."—Publishers Weekly “One of the most creative and iconoclastic works to have been written about Jews in the United States.”—Eliyahu Stern, Yale University The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups of people in the entire United States. Less known is how the community survived in one of the toughest parts of New York City during an era of steep decline, only to later resist and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of the neighborhood. Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a group of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely opposed the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood, from white flight and the construction of public housing to rising crime, divestment of city services, and, ultimately, extreme gentrification. By showing how Williamsburg’s Hasidim rejected assimilation while still undergoing distinctive forms of Americanization and racialization, Deutsch and Casper present both a provocative counter-history of American Jewry and a novel look at how race, real estate, and religion intersected in the creation of a quintessential, and yet deeply misunderstood, New York neighborhood.
Author | : Menashe Unger |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2015-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814338143 |
Download A Fire Burns in Kotsk Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Historians of literature, Polish culture, and Jewish studies will welcome this lively translation.
Author | : Sara Blair |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download Jewish in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A searching collection of perspectives on what it means to be Jewish in America
Author | : Catherine Rottenberg |
Publisher | : Suny Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-01-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781438445229 |
Download Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.