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711 entries that do not appear in any Jewish English dictionary.

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(See the NOTES for information about these languages, dictionaries, and types of people.)

• Languages of origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Aramaic
  • Yiddish
  • Modern Hebrew
  • English
  • Ladino
  • Arabic / Judeo-Arabic
  • Russian
  • Juhuri
  • Persian
  • Bukharian
  • Other

• Regions in which the word is used

  • North America
  • Great Britain
  • South Africa
  • Australia / New Zealand
  • Other

• Types of people who tend to use the word

  • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
  • Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
  • Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
  • Camp: Jews who attend or work at a Jewish overnight summer camp
  • Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there
  • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
  • Younger: Jews in their 30s or younger
  • Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)
  • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
  • Sephardim: Jews with Sephardi or Mizrahi heritage
  • Organizations: People involved in a professional or volunteer capacity with Jewish nonprofit organizations
  • Ethnic: Jews whose Jewish identity is primarily ethnic
  • Syrian: Jews with recent ancestry in Syria
  • Persian: Jews with recent ancestry in Iran
  • Bukharian: Jews with ancestry in Central Asia, such as Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
  • Juhuro: Jews with ancestry in the Caucasus region, such as Azerbaijan and Dagestan, also known as Kavkazi, Gorsky, or Mountain Jews
  • Chabad: Jews affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement
  • Russian: Jews whose ancestors were Russian-speaking Jews and migrated to English-speaking countries from the Soviet Union or Russia from the 1980s to the present
  • Other

• Dictionaries in which the word appears

  • The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
  • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
  • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
  • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
  • Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
  • Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
  • None

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