Yishuv

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Definitions

Example Sentences

  • "The Yishuv grew rapidly, absorbing hundreds of thousands of immigrants and, within these 30 years, the Jewish population increased from 56,000 to 600,000." (source)

  • "Ramban in his enumeration of the taryag counts yishuv Eretz Yisrael - conquering and settling Eretz Yisrael - as one of the 613 mitzvot." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish
  • Modern Hebrew
  • Textual Hebrew

Etymology

  • TH > MH ישוב yishúv, lit. 'settlement', Y ייִשובֿ yishev

      • Who Uses This

      • Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

Notes

  • The 'Old Yishuv' includes Jews who had been in the Land of Israel since before the First Aliyah of 1882. These Jews were mostly religious and mainly lived in Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias, and Hebron. The 'New Yishuv' includes Jews who arrived around the First Aliyah and often moved to Israel due to Zionist motivations. They were often focused on working the land and founded many (socialist) agricultural settlements such as kibbutzim, moshavim, and moshavot.

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