Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Summer on the Lower East Side

Author/Contributor(s):	Boyarin, Jonathan
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Date:	09/02/2013
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This is a narrative ethnography, in journal form, documenting the life of a small Orthodox Jewish congregation on the Lower East Side of New York in the summer of 2008. The text focuses on the arrival of a newer generation of congregants who are both younger and more transient than the previous immigrant generation. The synagogue and its social life are also portrayed as a microcosm of the gentrification of the neighborhood and resistance to that gentrification.