Pronunciations

Definitions

• n. Youth counselor or supervisor.
  

• n. A teacher's assistant for elementary and middle schoolers during classes in religious schools.
  

Example Sentences

Languages of Origin

• Modern Hebrew

Etymology

• מדריך madríkh 'lit. (male) guide', מדריכה madrikhá 'lit. (female) guide'
  

Who Uses This

• 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

Regions

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

• Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
• The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

Alternative Spellings

madricha, madrichah, madrikha, madrikh