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  • Hebrew as heritage: The work of Language in religious and communal continuity
    Linguistics and Education, 2012
    Co-Authors: Sharon Avni
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    Abstract While Hebrew education maintains a dominant position in Jewish educational contexts, little research has looked at what the practice of Hebrew Language education looks like on a daily basis. Drawing from an 18-month ethnography of junior high school students attending a private non-Orthodox all day school, this article critically examines the ways in which Hebrew was thought about and used in the classroom and during a two-week school-sponsored trip to Israel. Specifically, the article examines the multiple meanings that students and faculty infused into their use of Hebrew through their ideologies, words, and actions. It shows that the students and teachers drew upon Hebrew Language ideologies in their daily practices, invariably appropriating them in complex and unexpected ways. This article concludes with a discussion on the relationship between heritage Language learning and communal efforts to ensure continuity.

  • Toward an Understanding of Hebrew Language Education: Ideologies, Emotions, and Identity
    International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2011
    Co-Authors: Sharon Avni
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    This paper focuses on the practices of teaching and learning the Hebrew Language at a non-Orthodox Jewish day school, showing the ways that Hebrew Language ideologies intersect with categories of emotions, affect, and identity. Drawing from a corpus of ethnographic data collected over an 18-month period, this paper examines the ways in which local interpretations of what being Jewish entails for seventh and eighth grade students and their teachers are intricately tied to their feelings and beliefs regarding the Hebrew Language. While predominant Language ideologies explicitly support the importance of Hebrew at their school and within the Jewish community at large, and identify Hebrew as a marker of Jewishness, in practice feelings about the Language are complex and entangled with conflicting beliefs about how Jewish identity is expressed in a variety of Languages and practices. Ethnographic investigation of Language use in religious educational settings is crucial to providing a lens through which to view these complex interrelationships between ideologies of Languages, modes of representation, and religious identity.

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