zikorn

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Definitions

  • n. Memory.

Example Sentences

  • "Rosenfeld establishes the present moment of recall as a narrative perspective that involves the zikorn (memory) on which past events are ayngeshnitn (carved)." (Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers by Jan Schwarz)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y זכּרון zikorn

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

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

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