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Author Tavory, Iddo, 1977- author.

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

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Orthodox Judaism -- California -- Los Angeles.
Orthodox Judaism.
California -- Los Angeles.
Jews -- California -- Los Angeles -- Identity.
Jews.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Tavory, Iddo, 1977- Summoned. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016 9780226321868 022632186X (DLC) 2015026511 (OCoLC)914136831
ISBN 9780226322193 (electronic book)
022632219X (electronic book)
9780226321868
022632186X
9780226322056
022632205X