doikayt
Definitions
n. Hereness.
n. Diasporism.
n. "Strengthening Jewish communities wherever they live." (source)
Example Sentences
"J. Waks Cultural Centre runs SKIF, which is the youth group I go to... They teach us about Judaism and about chavershaft, yidishkait and doikait - which mean friendship and being good to others; Jewish identity and strengthening Jewish communities wherever they live." (source)
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"Their non-Zionist jiddischkeit and principle of doikait, the struggle for Jewish rights and cultural autonomy wherever Jews were living, had to handle the realization of a Zionist national state with socialist ambitions." (source)
"However, the Folkists and the Jewish communists as well saw everything with 'Doikait' (here and now) i.e. in the daily life of the Jews in the Diaspora." (source)
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Languages of Origin
- Yiddish
Etymology
דאָיִקייט doikayt 'hereness', from דאָ do 'here' plus ־יק -ik adjectival suffix plus ־קייט -kayt '-ness' suffix.
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Alternative Spellings
doikait, doykait, doykayt
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