TY - BOOK AU - Benor,Sarah ED - Project Muse. TI - Becoming frum: how newcomers learn the language and culture of Orthodox Judaism T2 - Jewish cultures of the world SN - 9780813553917 AV - BM723 .B427 2012 U1 - 296.8/32 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Yiddish language KW - Social aspects KW - Hebrew language KW - Orthodox Judaism KW - Jews KW - Return to Orthodox Judaism KW - Jewish way of life KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813553917/ ER -