Hebrew; Jewishness; Liberal religious communities; Literacy; Modernity; Religion; Social Psychology; Language and Linguistics; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology; Communication; Linguistics and Language
Résumé :
[en] Families enroll their children in Luxembourg's Liberal Talmud Torah because they are committed to continuing Jewish tradition and teaching their children how to be Jewish. These families are also deeply attached to liberal modernity and its ideals of free choice and autonomy – ideals that appear to clash with those of Jewishness. Hebrew and Hebrew literacy become key sites through which families resolve this tension. By reframing Hebrew proficiency as requiring decoding but not comprehension students contribute to Jewish continuity and simultaneously maintain a vision of themselves as modern progressives. This reframing is initially frustrating for students as Hebrew literacy practices conflict with schooled expectations for language and literacy; yet students eventually take up and find meaning in these new forms.
Disciplines :
Anthropologie Langues & linguistique
Auteur, co-auteur :
BADDER, Anastasia ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences > Department of Humanities > Team Gabriele BUDACH
Co-auteurs externes :
yes
Langue du document :
Anglais
Titre :
‘I just want you to get into the flow of reading’: Reframing Hebrew proficiency as an enactment of liberal Jewishness
This research was supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund under Grant PRIDE15/10921377/CALIDIE/Hu . I would also like to thank Laura Leibman and Viola Rautenberg for their insightful comments on earlier drafts of this article.
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