{"product_id":"mornings-at-the-stanton-street-jonathan-boyarin-9780823254040","title":"Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side","description":"\u003cem\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these pages Jonathan Boyarin invites us to share \u003cstrong\u003ethe intimate life of the Stanton Street Shul\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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, \u003cstrong\u003ethe book follows this congregation of \"year-round Jews\" through the course of a summer during which its future must once again be decided\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003eand from abroad. Few imagine that Jewish life there has stubbornly continued through this history of decline and regeneration. Coming inside with Boyarin, \u003cstrong\u003ewe see the congregation's life as a combination of quiet heroism, ironic humor, disputes for the sake of Heaven\u003c\/strong\u003e and perhaps otherwise, and above all the ongoing\u003cbr\u003esearch for ways to connect with Jewish ancestors while remaining true to oneself in the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eMornings at the Stanton Street Shul\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cstrong\u003ea gathering of vibrant, imperfect, indisputably down-to-earth individuals coming together to make a community\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Boyarin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823254046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823254040\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.60d","brand":"Jonathan Boyarin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926557032703,"sku":"9780823254040","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0d66dd1a-76d3-4c5f-a871-5cbcf63c598e.jpg?v=1681083730","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mornings-at-the-stanton-street-jonathan-boyarin-9780823254040","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}