Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn Paperback - 2009
by Ayala Fader
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"This is a superb book. All manner of readers will find themselves moved by this beautifully rendered portrait of the process by which Hasidic girls become Hasidic women. Scholars of language, gender, and religion will find something more--a theoretically innovative synthesis of work on language socialization and the anthropology of morality that points toward whole new areas of study. Put simply, it is one of the most exciting works on religion I have read in some years."--Joel Robbins, University of California, San Diego
"Mitzvah Girls is impressive in its sweep, tackling the considerable topic of how religious communities are sustained and changed. Ayala Fader transcends simple language and culture alignments to bring readers into the usually inaccessible private worlds of Hasidic families. I know of no other book that monitors socialization into gender from childhood to adulthood, while examining how language frames the formation of secular antipathies, adherence to divine legitimacy, self-control, and nostalgia for a lost Hasidic past."--Elinor Ochs, University of California, Los Angeles
"Mitzvah Girls is fresh and fascinating. It is exemplary not only because of the exceptionally fine ethnographic research, but also because of the highly original approach to language, body, and culture. Fader illuminates aspects of contemporary Hasidic life that have never been explored before in ways that speak to larger questions: the place of women in male-centered religions, the gendering of language, and the forms that modernity takes in a world that values tradition."--Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage
"With insightful and carefully drawn analysis, Mitzvah Girls challenges how Hasidim and other fundamentalist communities are often regarded from the outside. Fader presents a nuanced look at how both Yiddish and English are gendered in the daily lives of American Hasidic girls and women. This book makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship on American Hasidism, American Judaism more generally, contemporary Jewish language use, women's religious life, and religious fundamentalism."--Jeffrey Shandler, author of Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture
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- Title Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
- Author Ayala Fader
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
- Date 2009-08-09
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
- ISBN 9780691139173 / 0691139172
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Women in Judaism, Jewish girls - New York (State) - New York -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008053073
- Dewey Decimal Code 296.833
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