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Author Fader, Ayala, 1964- author.

Title Mitzvah girls : bringing up the next generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn / Ayala Fader
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages) : illustrations
Contents Notes on Yiddish and transcription conventions -- Introduction -- Fitting in -- Defiance -- Making English Jewish -- With it, not modern -- Ticket to Eden -- Becoming Hasidic wives
Summary Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community. Ayala Fader examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women responsible for rearing the next generation of nonliberal Jewish believers. To uncover how girls learn the practices of Hasidic Judaism, Fader looks beyond the synagogue to everyday talk in the context of homes, classrooms, and city streets. Hasidic women complicate stereotypes of nonliberal religious women by collapsing disti
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index
Notes Description based on print version record; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2023)
Subject Jewish girls -- New York (State) -- New York -- Conduct of life
Jewish religious education of girls -- New York (State) -- New York
Jewish women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Conduct of life
Hasidim -- New York (State) -- New York -- Conduct of life
Women in Judaism.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Hasidim -- Conduct of life
Jewish girls -- Conduct of life
Jewish religious education of girls
Jewish women -- Conduct of life
Religious life
Women in Judaism
SUBJECT Borough Park (New York, N.Y.) -- Religious life
Subject New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Borough Park
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400830992
1400830990
9786612298318
6612298316