Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish
Yes, I read dictionaries. They're books with words. So what if they aren't paragraphed and sentenced?...
Frumspeak examines the unique linguistic habits of Orthodox, native-born Americans. This book seeks to draw comparisons with parallel phenomena of Jewish linguistic creation including Yiddish and Ladino and reaches into the linguistic consciousness of the American Orthodox community to reveal how that community thinks, communicates, and educates. The Jewish religion molds the character of this community and determines how it works, builds a home life, celebrates, and educates children. By focusing on Jewish education, the community fosters an intimacy with the classic primary texts of Judaism. These texts are replete with memorable linguistic formulations, vivid imagery, and technical terminology, all of which govern the ways in which Orthodox Jews face the challenges of daily life. Orthodox children often gain academic exposure to sophisticated concepts years before they have to undertake the responsibilities of adulthood. With each new encounter a reference to rabbinic literature is drawn upon, and the classical terms become associated with tangible experience. The result is the English, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Yiddish amalgam that this book terms Yeshivish. Yeshivish grows increasingly prevalent as the American Orthodox community continues to grow into a strong, organized body responsible for its own...
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- Pages: 108 pages
- ISBN: 9781568216140 / 1568216149
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Yes, I read dictionaries. They're books with words. So what if they aren't paragraphed and sentenced? It's just as savory. This book may seem silly on the surface, and it may very well be to those discerning the book with a jocular eye, but it most certainly is not. The author clearly knows of what he speaks (I know that I know that...
