Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish by Chaim M. Weiser National Jewish Book Award Winner and the Holocaust

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Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish by Chaim M. Weiser National Jewish Book Award Winner and the HolocaustFrumspeak 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,