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Summoned : identification and religious life in a Jewish neighborhood /

On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles' traffic. Those who work 'Jewish jobs' - teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbis - will stay enmeshed in the Orth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tavory, Iddo, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles' traffic. Those who work 'Jewish jobs' - teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbis - will stay enmeshed in the Orthodox world throughout the workday. But even for the majority of men who spend their days in the world of gentiles, religious life constantly reasserts itself. Neighbourhood fixtures like Jewish schools and synagogues are always after more involvement; evening classes and prayers pull them in; the streets themselves seem to remind them of who they are. And so the week goes, culminating as the sabbatical observances on Friday afternoon stretch into Saturday evening. Life in this community, as Iddo Tavory describes it, is palpably thick with the twin pulls of observance and sociality.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226322193
022632219X