Publications

Publication details [#48646]

Fader, Ayala. 2008. Reading Jewish signs: The socialization of multilingual literacies among Hasidic women and girls in Brooklyn, New York. Text & Talk 28 (5) : 621–641.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

literacy | multilingualism | religion | signifying | socialization

Language as a subject

English | Hebrew | Yiddish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This paper shows how the fundamental religious community of Hasidic Jews construct an alternative religious modernity, examining multilingual (Hebrew/Aramaic, Yiddish and English) literacy socialization practices among Hasidic women and girls in Brooklyn (New York).