Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side by Jonathan

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Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side by Jonathan Boyarin

Illustrates in poignant and humorous ways the changes in a historic neighborhood facing the challenges of gentrification.

FORMAT
Paperback LANGUAGE
English

Publisher Description

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.
The Lower East Side, famous as the jumping off point for millions of Jewish and other immigrants to America, has recently become the hip playground of twenty-something immigrants to the city from elsewhere in America
and from abroad. Few imagine that Jewish life there has stubbornly continued through this history of decline and regeneration. Coming inside with Boyarin, we see the congregation's life as a combination of quiet heroism, ironic humor, disputes for the sake of Heaven and perhaps otherwise, and-above all-the ongoing
search for ways to connect with Jewish ancestors while remaining true to oneself in the present.
Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul illustrates in poignant and humorous ways the changes in a historic neighborhood facing the challenges of gentrification. It offers readers with no prior knowledge of Judaism and synagogue life a portrait that is at once intimate and intelligible. Most important, perhaps, it shows the congregation's members to be anything but a monochromatic set of uniform "believers" but rather a gathering of vibrant, imperfect, indisputably down-to-earth individuals coming together to make a community.

ISBN 0823254046 Author Jonathan Boyarin Short Title MORNINGS AT THE STANTON STREET Publisher Fordham University Press Language English ISBN-10 0823254046 ISBN-13 9780823254040 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 296.097 Illustrations Yes Residence US Affiliation The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Pages 209 Publication Date 2013-09-01 Year 2013 Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle A Summer on the Lower East Side Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Dimensions 5.7 in. x 0.6 in. x 8.6 in. 30 DAY RETURN POLICY

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