Yeshiva days: learning on the Lower East Side
An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew 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, stu...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ
Princeton University Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Boyarin, Jonathan, 1956-, Yeshiva days] (2022) (Newfield, Schneur Zalman, 1982 -)
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New York-Lower East Side
/ Yeshiva
/ History 1980-2011
B New York-Lower East Side / Jews / Talmud studies / Training / History 1980-2011 |
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Jewish men (New York (State)) (New York) Biography
B RELIGION / Orthodox / Judaism B Yeshivas (New York (State)) (New York) |
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| Summary: | An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew 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 to 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 introduces readers to the Rosh Yeshiva, or Rebbi, the moral and intellectual head of the yeshiva, and describes the compelling and often colorful personalities he encounters each day. 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 own negotiation of the daily complexities of student life at the yeshiva 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 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Big Room -- 2. The Neighborhood, the City, and Beyond -- 3. By Myself and with Others -- 4. Rebbi -- 5. The Meaning of Leshma -- 6. The Professor -- 7. Learning and the Time of the Dream -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 0691207690 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9780691207698 |