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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 ...
In North American and other diaspora Jewish communities, the use of "shiksa" reflects more social complexities than merely being a mild insult to non-Jewish women. A woman can only be a shiksa if she is perceived as such by Jewish people, usually Jewish men, making the term difficult to define; the Los Angeles Review of Books suggested there ...
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.
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.
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).
The Yiddish word has a trilingual etymology: Hebrew, רבי rabbí ("my master"); the Slavic feminine suffix, -ица (-itsa); and the Yiddish feminine suffix, ין- -in. [1] A male or female rabbi may have a male spouse but, as women and openly gay men were prohibited from the rabbinate for most of Jewish history, there has historically been ...
'Free Voice of Labor' also spelled with an extra mem פֿרייע אַרבעטער שטיממע) was a Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper published from New York City's Lower East Side between 1890 and 1977. It was among the world's longest running anarchist journals, and the primary organ of the Jewish anarchist movement in the United States ...
God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, protect your beloved people Israel from all hurt, in your love. As the beloved holy Sabbath goes (away), that the week, should come to us with perfect faith, with faith in the sages, with love and attachment to good friends, to attachment to the blessed Creator, with belief in your thirteen principles of faith, and in the ultimate redemption, may it ...