The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side:

The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side:
Author: Gerard R. Wolfe
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0823250008

The classic book on the Lower East Side's synagogues and their congregations, past and present-now back in print in a completely revised and expanded edition

Jewish New York

Jewish New York
Author: Paul M. Kaplan
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781455619689

This book focuses on the Jewish communities of Manhattan.

Ten Times Chai

Ten Times Chai
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781612549262

Michael Weinstein gives readers a tour of 180 beautiful synagogues throughout the boroughs of New York City. This coffee-table book¿s 613 photos represent each of the mitzvot, or commandments, of Judaism in the Torah. Michael shares the dates that these stunning synagogues were founded as well as their names, including their English translations.

Unsettled

Unsettled
Author: Melvin Konner
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2004-09-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0142196320

Far reaching, intellectually rich, and passionately written, Unsettled takes the whole history of Western civilization as its canvas and places onto it the Jewish people and faith. With historical insight and vivid storytelling, renowned anthropologist Melvin Konner charts how the Jews endured largely hostile (but at times accepting) cultures to shape the world around them and make their mark throughout history—from the pastoral tribes of the Bronze Age to enslavement in the Roman Empire, from the darkness of the Holocaust to the creation of Israel and the flourishing of Jews in America. With fresh interpretations of the antecedents of today's pressing conflicts, Unsettled is a work whose modern-day reverberations could not be more relevant or timely.

Mitzvah Girls

Mitzvah Girls
Author: Ayala Fader
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2009-07-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1400830990

Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community. Ayala Fader examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women responsible for rearing the next generation of nonliberal Jewish believers. To uncover how girls learn the practices of Hasidic Judaism, Fader looks beyond the synagogue to everyday talk in the context of homes, classrooms, and city streets. Hasidic women complicate stereotypes of nonliberal religious women by collapsing distinctions between the religious and the secular. In this innovative book, Fader demonstrates that contemporary Hasidic femininity requires women and girls to engage with the secular world around them, protecting Hasidic men and boys who study the Torah. Even as Hasidic religious observance has become more stringent, Hasidic girls have unexpectedly become more fluent in secular modernity. They are fluent Yiddish speakers but switch to English as they grow older; they are increasingly modest but also fashionable; they read fiction and play games like those of mainstream American children but theirs have Orthodox Jewish messages; and they attend private Hasidic schools that freely adapt from North American public and parochial models. Investigating how Hasidic women and girls conceptualize the religious, the secular, and the modern, Mitzvah Girls offers exciting new insights into cultural production and change in nonliberal religious communities.

Chicago's Forgotten Synagogues

Chicago's Forgotten Synagogues
Author: Robert A. Packer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738551524

The disappearing history of Chicago's Jewish past can be found in the religious architecture of its stately synagogues and communal buildings. Whether modest or majestic, wood or stone, the buildings reflected their members' views on faith and their commitment to the neighborhoods where they lived in a time when individuals and the community were inseparable from their neighborhood synagogues, temples, and shuls. From Chicago's oldest Jewish congregation, Kehilath Anshe Maariv Temple (Pilgrim Baptist), to Ohave Sholom (St. Basils Greek Orthodox), to Kehilath Anshe Maariv's last independent building (Operation Push), come and explore Chicago's forgotten synagogues and communal buildings. Nearly 150 years of Chicago history unfolds in Chicago's Forgotten Synagogues as the photographs and accompanying stories tell of the synagogues' past greatness and their present and uncertain future.