Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side write by Catherine Rottenberg. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.
Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side
Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side write by Catherine Rottenberg. This book was released on 2014-01-02. Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.
The Jews of Harlem
The Jews of Harlem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jews of Harlem write by Jeffrey S. Gurock. This book was released on 2016-10-25. The Jews of Harlem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The complete story of Jewish Harlem and its significance in American Jewish history New York Times columnist David W. Dunlap wrote a decade ago that “on the map of the Jewish Diaspora, Harlem Is Atlantis. . . . A vibrant hub of industry, artistry and wealth is all but forgotten. It is as if Jewish Harlem sank 70 years ago beneath waves of memory beyond recall.” During World War I, Harlem was the home of the second largest Jewish community in America. But in the 1920s Jewish residents began to scatter to other parts of Manhattan, to the outer boroughs, and to other cities. Now nearly a century later, Jews are returning uptown to a gentrified Harlem. The Jews of Harlem follows Jews into, out of, and back into this renowned metropolitan neighborhood over the course of a century and a half. It analyzes the complex set of forces that brought several generations of central European, East European, and Sephardic Jews to settle there. It explains the dynamics that led Jews to exit this part of Gotham as well as exploring the enduring Jewish presence uptown after it became overwhelmingly black and decidedly poor. And it looks at the beginnings of Jewish return as part of the transformation of New York City in our present era. The Jews of Harlem contributes much to our understanding of Jewish and African American history in the metropolis as it highlights the ever-changing story of America’s largest city. With The Jews of Harlem, the beginning of Dunlap’s hoped-for resurfacing of this neighborhood’s history is underway. Its contemporary story merits telling even as the memories of what Jewish Harlem once was warrants recall.
At the Edge of a Dream
At the Edge of a Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At the Edge of a Dream write by Lawrence J Epstein. This book was released on 2007-08-17. At the Edge of a Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A Lower East Side Tenement Museum book."
Yeshiva Days
Yeshiva Days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yeshiva Days write by Jonathan Boyarin. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Yeshiva Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 of 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 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. A richly mature work by a writer of uncommon insight, wit, and honesty, Yeshiva Days 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.
