Becoming frum [electronic resource] : how newcomers learn the language and culture of Orthodox Judaism / Sarah Bunin Benor.
Material type: TextSeries: Jewish cultures of the world | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)ISBN:- 9780813553917
- 0813553911
- 296.8/32 23
- BM723 .B427 2012
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.
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