Resumen de Women′s badkhones: the Satmar poem sung to a bride

Zelda Kahan-Newman

• Analysis and exploration of a newly created example of badkhones, a traditionalpoem sung to a bride, explores language functions andreveals the influences ofHebrew, biblical and vernacular, on the Yiddish used by women in this Hasidic sect. The text, transcribedfrom a wedding that toohplace in Israel, reveals the influence ofKabalistic mystical thought on the content of the sung poem. It also provides evidence of language Variation by revealing the ways in which both the Hebrew and Yiddish deviatefrom the Standards.

  This kind of song, badkhones, has traditionally been created by and performed by males. Finding it performed by women in the largely genderseparated context of a wedding uncovers n