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

by Jonathan Boyarin

Book Overview

This lively ethnography traces a fraught three months in the life of a Jewish congregation stubbornly persisting on the Lower East Side, and affords a candid, lucid and intimate introduction to contemporary synagogue practice.

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823254046
• ISBN13: 9780823254040
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"