books.google.co.il - 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 lives of most American Jews. Why is this East European incarnation...http://books.google.co.il/books/about/The_World_of_the_Yeshiva.html?id=zjfPA1NZFbgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe World of the Yeshiva