1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457414403321

Autore

Boyarin Jonathan

Titolo

Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul [[electronic resource] ] : a summer on the Lower East Side / / Jonathan Boyarin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8232-3904-7

1-283-29998-4

9786613299987

0-8232-3902-0

0-8232-3903-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

296.09747/1

Soggetti

Synagogues - New York (State) - New York

Jews - New York (State) - New York

Electronic books.

Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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