Wake up, wake up, to do the work of the creator

by William B. Helmreich

210 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1980

About the author

William Helmreich was a professor of sociology at the City College of New York Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He specialized in race and ethnic relations, religion, immigration, risk behavior, the sociology of New York City, urban sociology, consumer behavior, and market research.

Reviews

[Yoshi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable read. A memior of a modern Orthodox boy in 1950s Manhattan, who goes away to Yeshiva in high school. Helmreich writes about his passionate first year away at a more religious school than the modern Orthodox education of his earlier years at home in New York. He describes his struggle with abandoning secular studies and ultimately his decision to leave the Haredi yeshiva in high school to return to New York. I enjoyed mostly his accounts of religious life in this era and his descriptions of Judaism in the slice of American Jewish life that he was raised in.