Growing Up Conservadox at JTS: A Personal Remembrance

Growing Up Conservadox at JTS: A Personal Remembrance

This unusual and engaging memoir describes the author's experiences while growing up Conservadox, a never-never land supposedly to the left of Modern Orthodox Judaism and to the right of Conservative Judaism, as a scholar's son at the Jewish Theological Seminary during its heyday, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He recounts studying one-on-one with the great Saul Lieberman, Susannah Heschel's quest to have a Bat Mitzvah at the Seminary, and other never-before-published stories about the Seminary's then world-renowned faculty, and their wives.

The book is illustrated, replete with hyperlinks to hard-to-find sources, indexed, and offers suggestions for further reading.

Table of Contents:
Foreword
My Father, Nahum M. Sarna
Early History of JTS
Relocating to Morningside Heights
There Was a Rule About It
The Telephone Rings Incessantly
Rabbi Jacob Kret and the Seminary Cafeteria
The Seminary Synagogue
Rank-Ordered Seating
Decorum During Services
The Women's Section
Seminary Children
Students Barely Tolerated
Studying with Professor Lieberman
Seminary Women
Boundaries of Feminism at JTS
Strict Observance of Jewih Law
Then and Now
About the Author
Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David E. Y. Sarna is a writer and technologist. His books include:
The Jewish Way of Death, Burial, and Mourning
History of Greed (Wiley),
Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications (Auerbach Publications)
PC Magazine Windows Rapid Application Development (Ziff-Davis),
Evernote for Dummies (Wiley).
He has nearly completed his first novel about the Jewish treasures hidden in the Vaticanâ€™s secret archives. Sarna is a sometime contributor to magazines, including the Jerusalem Post, Tablet magazine, The Jewish Link, Jewish Voice and Opinion, and Times of Israel. He occasionally blogs at greedwatcher.com and at davidbarnahum.com.
Country USA
Manufacturer Modern Jewish Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-01-10
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Modern Jewish Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-01-10
Format	Kindle eBook