The Lost Synagogues of Manhattan
Author | : Ellen Levitt |
Publisher | : Avotaynu |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Governors Island (New York County, N.Y.) |
ISBN | : 9780983697527 |
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Author | : Ellen Levitt |
Publisher | : Avotaynu |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Governors Island (New York County, N.Y.) |
ISBN | : 9780983697527 |
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
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.
Author | : Jon Butler |
Publisher | : Belknap Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2020-09-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674045688 |
A master historian traces the flourishing of organized religion in Manhattan between the 1880s and the 1960s, revealing how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism. In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity of urban life, and modernity’s rationalism, bureaucratization, and professionalization seemingly eviscerated the sense of religious community. Yet fears of religion’s demise were dramatically overblown. Jon Butler finds a spiritual hothouse in the supposed capital of American secularism. By the 1950s Manhattan was full of the sacred. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants peppered the borough with sanctuaries great and small. Manhattan became a center of religious publishing and broadcasting and was home to august spiritual reformers from Reinhold Niebuhr to Abraham Heschel, Dorothy Day, and Norman Vincent Peale. A host of white nontraditional groups met in midtown hotels, while black worshippers gathered in Harlem’s storefront churches. Though denied the ministry almost everywhere, women shaped the lived religion of congregations, founded missionary societies, and, in organizations such as the Zionist Hadassah, fused spirituality and political activism. And after 1945, when Manhattan’s young families rushed to New Jersey and Long Island’s booming suburbs, they recreated the religious institutions that had shaped their youth. God in Gotham portrays a city where people of faith engaged modernity rather than foundered in it. Far from the world of “disenchantment” that sociologist Max Weber bemoaned, modern Manhattan actually birthed an urban spiritual landscape of unparalleled breadth, suggesting that modernity enabled rather than crippled religion in America well into the 1960s.
Author | : Ellen Levitt |
Publisher | : Wilderness Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2015-04-20 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0899977642 |
Walking Manhattan by Ellen Levitt is written with many people in mind: the tourists who have never before visited Manhattan as well as those returning to the Big Apple; the residents who want to ramble through parts of Gotham with which they are less familiar; the "I've seen it all" New Yorker who is willing to consult a new source and find "new" sights and sounds that interest them. Readers can pick and choose how and where they investigate Manhattan by consulting this new guide. This guidebook will help readers to appreciate more fully the author's selection of unique things to see and experience throughout Manhattan. It points out the many beautiful and intriguing sights; the history to be learned; the joyful as well as sad aspects of Manhattan life throughout the years. Landmarks and parks, schools and eateries, art and sport, big and bold sites as well as modest and small; Walking Manhattan can introduce you to them all.
Author | : Elana Maryles Sztokman |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1611680808 |
A provocative look at the inner world of Orthodox Jewish men who attend partnership synagogues
Author | : Bernard Weinstein |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783743565 |
Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.
Author | : Hilary Ballon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Atlases |
ISBN | : 9780231159906 |
"Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrating the bicentennial of the 1811 Commissioners' Plan of Manhattan, this volume does more than memorialize such a visionary effort, it serves as an enduring reference full of rare images and information."--P. [4] of cover.