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)