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Sto caricando le informazioni... Boychiks in the hood : travels in the Hasidic underground (1995)di Robert Eisenberg
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This sounded so promising. Robert Eisenberg had a great in with the various Hasidic and Orthodox groups being fluent in Yiddish. Unfortunately it seemed that he only spent a week or two with each group. Not enough to make an emotional connection or to really get to know the people. This ended up being just a very cursory overview of a number of groups. I realize that this was written some time ago so some things were dated. I wonder where some of these folks are now? I was puzzled when he was in Poland and visited a town with only two remaining Jewish men. How did they form a minyan? Did that not matter to them? Did they go somewhere else to have the right number of people to pray? It wasn't mentioned at all. It seemed like it should have come up as a difficulty in being so isolated. I finished it, but I was disappointed. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Boychiks in the Hood is your passport to the Hasidic "underworld" -- a destination far different from popular expectations. Join Robert Eisenberg as he hangs out with an ex-Deadhead in Antwerp, makes a pilgrimage to the grave of the revered Rebbie Nachman in the Ukraine, munches mini-bagels with Rollerblading kosher butchers in Minnesota, discovers the last remaining religious Jews in Poland, talks sex with a karate-champion-turned-rabbi in Israel, and more.Simultaneously respectful and hilarious, Boychiks in the Hood is a surprising and unforgettable journey through the world's flourishing Hasidic communities that reveals this vibrant tradition as never before. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It was encouraging to read about all these kids growing up speaking Yiddish, when I was always taught that it was a dying language.
It gives one a sense of what it's like to be a liberal Christian who has to deal with being linked to conservative evangelicals. 'They're crazies, I couldn't disagree with them more, but... they're our crazies.'
I would like to say something more coherent about this book, but my thoughts about it all are still in a state of disarray and likely to remain so for a while. ( )