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Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side,Used
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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 Yorks historic Lower East Side. This narrow building, wedged into a lot designed for an oldlaw tenement, is full of clamorous voicesthe 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, the book follows this congregation of yearround Jews through the course of a summer during which its future must once again be decided.The 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 twentysomething immigrants to the city from elsewhere in Americaand from abroad. Few imagine that Jewish life there has stubbornly continued through this history of decline and regeneration. Coming inside with Boyarin, we see the congregations life as a combination of quiet heroism, ironic humor, disputes for the sake of Heaven and perhaps otherwise, andabove allthe ongoingsearch for ways to connect with Jewish ancestors while remaining true to oneself in the present.Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul 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 congregations members to be anything but a monochromatic set of uniform believers but rather a gathering of vibrant, imperfect, indisputably downtoearth individuals coming together to make a community.
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