Speakers: Jonathan Boyarin, Eliot Jager

New York’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. Jonathan Boyarin, Cornell professor of Modern Jewish Studies, spent a year as student and observer and Yeshiva Days is the result – a uniquely personal account that explores Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem’s relationship with its Manhattan neighbourhood and Jewish and American culture more broadly. He will be in conversation with journalist and author Elliot Jager.