Mitzvah girls
Subtitle: bringing up the next generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
By: Ayala Fader.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780691139166; 9780691139173
Subjects: Jewish girls -- New York (State) -- New York -- Conduct of life; Jewish religious education of girls -- New York (State) -- New York; Jewish women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Conduct of life; Hasidim -- New York (State) -- New York -- Conduct of life; Women in Judaism; Borough Park (New York, N.Y.) -- Religious life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Notes on Yiddish and transcription conventions; title: Introduction; title: Fitting in; title: Defiance; title: Making English Jewish; title: With it, not modern; title: Ticket to Eden; title: Becoming Hasidic wives.