Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish

by Chaim M . Weiser (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $46.26

  Frumspeak 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.