Yeshiva days : learning on the Lower East Side / Jonathan Boyarin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyarin, Jonathan, author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish men--New York (State)--New York.

Jewish men.

Yeshivas--New York (State)--New York.

Yeshivas.

Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.).

Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem (New York, N.Y.).

Boyarin, Jonathan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This is 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.

Contents:

1. The big room

2. The neighborhood, the city, and beyond

3. By myself with others

4. Rebbi

5. The meaning of Leshma

6. The professor

7. Learning and the time of the dream.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

ISBN:

9780691203980

0691203989

OCLC:

1151492905