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**An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning** New York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway. __Yeshiva Days__ is Jonathan Boyarin's uniquely personal account of the year he spent as both student and observer at Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem, and a poignant chronicle of a side to Jewish life that outsiders rarely see. Boyarin explores the yeshiva's relationship with the neighborhood, the city, and Jewish and American culture more broadly, and brings vividly to life its routines, rituals, and rhythms. He introduces readers to the Rosh Yeshiva, or Rebbi, the moral and intellectual head of the yeshiva, and describes the compelling and often colorful personalities he encounters each day. Boyarin reflects on the tantalizing meanings of "study for its own sake" in the intellectually vibrant world of traditional rabbinic learning, and records his fellow students' responses to his own negotiation o

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Author

Boyarin, Jonathan

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691207698

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Judaism, Science