Summoned: Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood

by Iddo Tavory

Book Overview

On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles' traffic. Those who work "Jewish jobs"--teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbis--will stay enmeshed in the Orthodox world throughout the workday. But even for the majority of men who spend their days in the world of gentiles, religious life constantly reasserts itself. Neighborhood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022632205X
• ISBN13: 9780226322056
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"