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Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul : a Summer on the Lower East Side /

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 generatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyarin, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Fordham University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 congregation of “year-round Jews” through the course of a summer during which its future must once again be decided.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (230 pages)
ISBN:9780823239030
0823239039