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  2. Tz'enah Ur'enah - Wikipedia

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    The Tz'enah Ur'enah (Hebrew: צְאֶנָה וּרְאֶינָה ‎ Ṣʼenā urʼenā "Go forth and see"; Yiddish pronunciation: [ˌʦɛnəˈʁɛnə]; Hebrew pronunciation: [ʦeˈʔena uʁˈʔena]), also spelt Tsene-rene and Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the Women's Bible, is a Yiddish-language prose work whose structure parallels the weekly Torah portions and Haftarahs used in Jewish prayer ...

  3. Shiksa - Wikipedia

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    Her grandmother can be considered a hag form of the shiksa. More dangerous shiksas in literature include Shmuel Yosef Agnon's "Lady and the Peddler", in which a shiksa plans to eat the Jewish man she is dating, and I. L. Peretz "Monish", which sees a Jewish man fall into a hell-like place for loving a blonde woman. [7]

  4. Tkhine - Wikipedia

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    Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the New Moon of Elul by Serl bat R' Yankev Sega"l of Dubno. Tkhines or teḥinot (Yiddish: תְּחִנּוֹת, lit. 'supplications', pronounced or Hebrew: pronounced) may refer to Yiddish prayers and devotions, usually personal and from a female viewpoint, or collections of such prayers.

  5. Yiddish literature - Wikipedia

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    A commentary written for women on the weekly parashot by Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi in 1616, the Tseno Ureno (צאנה וראינה), remains a ubiquitous book in Yiddish homes to this day. Women wrote old Yiddish literature infrequently, but several collections of tkhines (personal prayers which are not part of liturgy) were written by ...

  6. Category:Jewish women writers - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Jewish writers. It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Women writers .

  7. Yiddish - Wikipedia

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    Yiddish, [a] historically Judeo-German, [11] [b] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.It originated in 9th-century [12]: 2 Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic.

  8. Meir Blinken - Wikipedia

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    Meir Blinken (Russian: Меер Янкелевич Блинкин, romanized: Meyer Yankelevich Blinkin; 1879 – 1915) was an American and Jewish author who published about 50 fiction and nonfiction works in Yiddish between 1904 and 1915.

  9. Category:Yiddish words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves.Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase.