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Among Orthodox Jews, the term may be used to describe a Jewish girl or woman who fails to follow Orthodox religious precepts. The equivalent term for a non-Jewish male, used less frequently, is shegetz. [2] Because of Jewish matrilineal descent, there is often less of a taboo associated with non-Jewish men. [3] [4] [5]
However, face veils are known historically to have been worn by Jewish women. Marc B. Shapiro has written that there are some traditional sources which describe and praise the custom of modest Jewish women covering their faces, [53] including the Babylonian Talmud, [54] [55] Jerusalem Talmud, [56] Mishnah, [57] and Mishneh Torah. [58]
Woman of the Haredi burqa sect in Mea Shearim, a Jewish neighbourhood in Jerusalem, 2012 The " Haredi burqa sect " ( Hebrew : נשות השָאלִים Neshót haShalím , lit. ' shawl-wearing women ' ) is a community of Haredi Jews that ordains the full covering of a woman's entire body and face, including her eyes, for the preservation of ...
A Book of Jewish Women’s Prayers : Translations from the Yiddish / Selected and with Commentary by Norman Tarnor (1995) ISBN 1-56821-298-4; Kay, Devra. Seyder Tkhines : the Forgotten Book of Common Prayer for Jewish Women / Translated and Edited, with Commentary by Devra Kay. (2004) ISBN 0-8276-0773-3
Yiddish Used as a greeting for the holidays. [2] Often spelled Gut Yontif or Gut Yontiff in English transliteration. Gut'n Mo'ed: גוטן מועד: Good ḥol hamoed [ˈɡutn̩ ˈmɔjɛd] Yiddish As above (as a greeting during the chol ha-moed (intermediate days) of the Passover and Sukkot holidays), but Yiddish/English L'shanah tovah or Shana ...
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
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The use of Yiddish as the primary spoken language by Jews was heavily encouraged by multiple Jewish political groups at the time. The Evsketsii, the Jewish Communist Group, and The Bund, the Jewish Socialist Group, both heavily encouraged the use of Yiddish. During the Bolshevik Era these political groups worked alongside the government to ...