The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry by William B. Helmreich

The World of the Yeshiva: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry

William B. Helmreich

412 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative reflective medium-paced

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In the advance yeshiva, adult males spend long periods of time-sometimes their entire lives-studying and interpreting traditional writings on Jewish law and theology, all but totally cut off from the mainstream of American life, and indeed, the li...

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