Yeshiva Days : : Learning on the Lower East Side / / Jonathan Boyarin.

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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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 1 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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