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Bilingualism and dialect mixture among Lubavitcher Hasidic children

American speech • Tuscaloosa, Ala. • Published In 1968 • Pages: 182-200

By: Jochnowitz, George.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

This 1967 study, based on extensive interviews with primarily Lubavitcher informants, analyzes the Yiddish language usage of the children of this Hasidic group. In the first part of the article, Jochnowitz raises four significant questions regarding the use of Yiddish by the children. '1) Do the children exhibit as much diversity as their parents when speaking Yiddish or is there a general American Lubavitcher Yiddish developing? 2) If such a dialect is indeed developing, do the other Yiddish dialects heard in Crown Heights influence it? 3) Is the Yiddish of American-born Lubavitcher children closer to Standard Yiddish than to that of their parents? And 4) What role does English play in the Yiddish of these children?' (p. 186). The second part of this work analyzes the proficiency in English shown by the Lubavitcher children, and whether or not English actually shows signs of replacing Yiddish in this younger generation. The questions outlined above are discussed at great length in this document and well illustrated with many example from the linguistic structure of the Yiddish language.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Language

Grammar

Phonology

Congregations

cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

North American Hasidic Jews

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

1996

RegionThe area the document pertains to

North America

Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region

Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures

Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs

article

Evaluation

Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.

Ethnologist

Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

John Beierle ; 1995

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

1967

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

1967

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Lubavitch; Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y., United States

NotesAdditional notes

George Jochnowitz

Includes bibliographical references

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

27021844

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Jews