Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice

by Rachel B. Gross and Gross

Book Overview

Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies

Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society

Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity

In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479803383
• ISBN13: 9781479803385
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"