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Publication details [#60116]

Assouline, Dalit. 2015. Linguistic outcomes of a Hasidic renewal: The case of Skver. Language & Communication 42 : 141–146.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | language shift | pronunciation | religion | vowel

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This study concentrates on the Skver Hasidim sect , residing in New York, where historical circumstances generated a conflict between two pronunciation systems. Yiddish and liturgical Hebrew in Skver mirror two divergent dialects. Ritual Hebrew pronunciation features the distinct Skver Hasidim identity.