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Summoned : identification and religious life in a Jewish neighborhood / Iddo Tavory.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780226322193
  • 022632219X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Summoned.DDC classification:
  • 305.892/4079494 23
LOC classification:
  • F869.L89 J575 2016eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Toward a sociology of summoning -- From ethnic enclave to religious destination -- Organizational entanglements -- Edicts and interaction in synagogue life -- The buzz of difference -- Situational boundaries and balancing acts -- The neighborhood as moral obstacle course -- The density of worlds -- Appendix: summoned and abductive analysis.
Summary: On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles' traffic. Those who work 'Jewish jobs' - teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbis - will stay enmeshed in the Orthodox world throughout the workday. But even for the majority of men who spend their days in the world of gentiles, religious life constantly reasserts itself. Neighbourhood fixtures like Jewish schools and synagogues are always after more involvement; evening classes and prayers pull them in; the streets themselves seem to remind them of who they are. And so the week goes, culminating as the sabbatical observances on Friday afternoon stretch into Saturday evening. Life in this community, as Iddo Tavory describes it, is palpably thick with the twin pulls of observance and sociality.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward a sociology of summoning -- From ethnic enclave to religious destination -- Organizational entanglements -- Edicts and interaction in synagogue life -- The buzz of difference -- Situational boundaries and balancing acts -- The neighborhood as moral obstacle course -- The density of worlds -- Appendix: summoned and abductive analysis.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 23, 2016).

On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their day with Talmud reading and prayer at 5:45am, before joining Los Angeles' traffic. Those who work 'Jewish jobs' - teachers, kosher supervisors, or rabbis - will stay enmeshed in the Orthodox world throughout the workday. But even for the majority of men who spend their days in the world of gentiles, religious life constantly reasserts itself. Neighbourhood fixtures like Jewish schools and synagogues are always after more involvement; evening classes and prayers pull them in; the streets themselves seem to remind them of who they are. And so the week goes, culminating as the sabbatical observances on Friday afternoon stretch into Saturday evening. Life in this community, as Iddo Tavory describes it, is palpably thick with the twin pulls of observance and sociality.