Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side 9780691207698, 9780691203997, 9780691203980, 0691207690

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning New

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English Pages 220 Year 2020

Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side
9780691207698, 9780691203997, 9780691203980, 0691207690

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning N

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Counter Institution is a history of three re-purposed buildings in the Lower East Side--Peace Pentagon, ABC No Rio, and

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Born in Transylvania at the turn of the century, Bella Cohen Spewack arrived on the streets of New York's Lower Eas

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She records the gradual weakening of her family's commitment to religion as they find their way from the shadow of

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Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-America

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This book chronicles an ethnographic teams involvement over a span of fifteen years with the people of a poor, largely P

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How New York’s Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing America New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed a

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This landmark book, together with its accompanying CD, captures the heady excitement of the vibrant, irreverent poetry s

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The severe financial austerity imposed on New York City during the 1975 fiscal crisis resulted in a city falling apart.

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