Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul : a summer on the lower East Side / Jonathan Boyarin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyarin, Jonathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stanton Street Shul (New York, N.Y.).

Jews--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Fordham University Press, [2011]

Summary:

In these pages Jonathan Boyarin invites us to share the intimate life of the Stanton Street Shul, 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 making themselves Jews in the process. Through the eyes of Boyarin, at once a member of the congregation and a bemused anthropologist, the book follows this c

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Illustrations; To the Reader; Introduction; WEEK One; WEEK Two; WEEK Three; WEEK Four; WEEK Five; WEEK Six; WEEK Seven; WEEK Eight; WEEK Nine; WEEK Ten; WEEK Eleven; WEEK Twelve; Works Cited; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8232-3904-7

1-283-29998-4

9786613299987

0-8232-3902-0

0-8232-3903-9

OCLC:

801363451