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Becoming frum how newcomers learn the language and culture of Orthodox Judaism
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Title
Becoming frum [electronic resource] : how newcomers learn the language and culture of Orthodox Judaism / Sarah Bunin Benor.
ISBN
0813553911
9780813553917
0813553903
9780813553894 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813553900 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (288 p.)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Global Cultural Studies Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2012
Series
Jewish cultures of the world
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : Orthodox Jews and language socialization
"Now you look like a lady" : adventures in ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork
"He has tzitzis hanging out of his ponytail" : Orthodox cultural practices and how bts adapt them
"This is not what to record" : Yiddish, Hebrew, and the English of orthodox Jews
"Torah or toyrah" : language and the modern orthodox to black hat continuum
"Just keepin' it real, mamish" : why ba'alei teshuva adopt (or avoid) Orthodox language
"I finally got the lingo" : progression in newcomers' acquisition of Orthodox language
"A ba'al teshuva freak" : distinguishing practices of newly Orthodox Jews
Matisyahu and my fair lady : reflections on adult language socialization.
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