Yeshiva Days - by Jonathan Boyarin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This book is an ethnographic description of the experiences of the author at a yeshiva located near his home on New York's Lower East Side, Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem (MTJ). Jonathan Boyarin spent a good deal of time at MTJ in the 1980s, before his anthropological training, and returned to it in 2011 when he once again became a regular visitor and participant. This book, in essence, is a portrait of life in this yeshiva. Boyarin introduces the MTJ yeshiva and its place in the wider American Jewish community, then takes up the daily patterns, rituals, and rhythms of the place"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning</b> <p/>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. <i>Yeshiva Days</i> 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 of Jewish life that outsiders rarely see. <p/>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 describes the compelling and often colorful personalities he encounters each day, and introduces readers to the Rosh Yeshiva, or Rebbi, the moral and intellectual head of the yeshiva. 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 negotiation of the daily complexities of yeshiva life while he also conducts anthropological fieldwork. <p/>A richly mature work by a writer of uncommon insight, wit, and honesty, <i>Yeshiva Days</i> is the story of a place on the Lower East Side with its own distinctive heritage and character, a meditation on the enduring power of Jewish tradition and learning, and a record of a different way of engaging with time and otherness.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jonathan Boyarin</b> is the Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at Cornell University. His books include <i>Jewish Families</i>, <i>Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side</i>, and <i>The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe</i>.
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