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Publication Date: January 1981
Publisher: Mouton Publishers
Author(s): Samuel C. Heilman
Research Area: Culture and religion
Keywords: American Jews; Religious denominations; Language
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
This paper examines the language of those who share the religious, cultural, and personal outlook of modern American Orthodox Judaism. Since they ease their alternation by compartmentalizations and reinterpretations or conceptual compromises, one would accordingly expect their language use to echo and avert this movement. The paper aims to demonstrate that indeed such is the case, to elucidate the process, and, in so doing, to shed further light upon the character of American modern Orthodoxy.