Mitzvah Girls : : Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn / / Ayala Fader.
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 n...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 8 halftones. 1 table. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Yiddish and Transcription Conventions
- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO. Fitting In
- CHAPTER THREE. Defiance
- CHAPTER FOUR. Making English Jewish
- CHAPTER FIVE. With It, Not Modern
- CHAPTER SIX. Ticket to Eden
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Becoming Hasidic Wives
- Coda
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index