Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learning

New York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway. Yeshiva Days is Jonathan Boyarin's uniquely personal account of the year he spent as both student and obser...