The Miracle Of Intervale Avenue

Author : Jack Kugelmass
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231103077
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miracle of Intervale Avenue written by Jack Kugelmass and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the ravaged urban landscape of the South Bronx, the Intervale Jewish Center is the last synagogue still in regular use in a rapidly changing neighborhood. This unique congregation represents the struggle of individuals to maintain their dignity, independence, and faith over the years. In The Miracle of Intervale Avenue, Jack Kugelmass tells the inspiring story of a community that continues to see the area as its own, as a place they steadfastly refuse to abandon despite a major shift in the ethnic demography of the South Bronx and an increase in violent crime. The Miracle of Intervale Avenue is the story of Moishe Sacks, the Intervale Jewish Center's charismatic leader, acting rabbi, master baker, and storyteller. But it is also the larger story of a small community of primarily elderly Jews and of the human quest for meaning in the face of death. A classic ethnography of American Jewish life, The Miracle of Intervale Avenue has now been brought up to date. In a new closing chapter and epilogue, Kugelmass shows how the congregation has adapted to the radical changes in the neighborhood, bringing closure to this poignant work. Now with 38 photographs of the community over the years, the book covers the slow economic resurgence of the South Bronx and discusses the revitalizing effect of the congregation's new members, including blacks and Latinos.

Author : Jack Kugelmass
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 9780805208450
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miracle of Intervale Avenue written by Jack Kugelmass and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic ethnography of American Jewish life.

Author : Jack Kugelmass
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801494086
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Two Worlds written by Jack Kugelmass and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert A. Orsi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253212764
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gods of the City written by Robert A. Orsi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Review

Author : Phil Brown
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439906446
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catskill Culture written by Phil Brown and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Boyarin
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823239020
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul written by Jonathan Boyarin and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of one of the last remaining synagogues in the historic neighborhood and its congregation is “as absorbing as a good cinema verité documentary” (Booklist). On New York’s Lower East Side, a 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. In this book, Jonathan Boyarin, at once a member of the congregation and a bemused anthropologist, follows this congregation of “year-round Jews” through the course of a summer during which its future must once again be decided. Famous as the jumping off point for millions of Jewish and other immigrants to America, the neighborhood has recently become the hip playground of twentysomething immigrants to the city from elsewhere in America and from abroad. Few imagine that Jewish life there has stubbornly continued through this history of decline and regeneration. Yet, inside with Boyarin, we see the congregation’s life as a combination of quiet heroism, ironic humor, lively disputes, and—above all—the ongoing search for ways to connect with Jewish ancestors while remaining true to oneself in the present. Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul is both a portrait of a historic neighborhood facing the challenges of gentrification, and a poignant, humorous chronicle of vibrant, imperfect, down-to-earth individuals coming together to make a community.

Author : Allan Amanik
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479884995
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dust to Dust written by Allan Amanik and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at how death and burial practices influence the living Dust to Dust offers a three-hundred-year history of Jewish life in New York, literally from the ground up. Taking Jewish cemeteries as its subject matter, it follows the ways that Jewish New Yorkers have planned for death and burial from their earliest arrival in New Amsterdam to the twentieth century. Allan Amanik charts a remarkable reciprocity among Jewish funerary provisions and the workings of family and communal life, tracing how financial and family concerns in death came to equal earlier priorities rooted in tradition and communal cohesion. At the same time, he shows how shifting emphases in death gave average Jewish families the ability to advocate for greater protections and entitlements such as widows’ benefits and funeral insurance. Amanik ultimately concludes that planning for life’s end helps to shape social systems in ways that often go unrecognized.

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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-09-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-10-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

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Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-11-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.