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Juhuro: Jews with ancestry in the Caucasus region, such as Azerbaijan and Dagestan, also known as Kavkazi, Gorsky, or Mountain Jews
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
North African: Jews with ancestry in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, or Egypt
Yemenite: Jews with ancestry in Yemen
Ottoman Sephardim: Jews with ancestry in Spain and, post-expulsion, in Turkey, Greece, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire
Kurdistan: Jews with ancestry in the Kurdish region of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
Iraqi: Jews with ancestry in Iraq
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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).
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din
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din vekhezhbn
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dina demalchuta dina
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ding
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dinst
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dira betachtonim
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dire
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dirigir
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divaile
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diyuk
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doichek
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doikayt
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doime
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donstairsiker
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dopes
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dor
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dos
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dos two beeches
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dover akher
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drash
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drasha
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draykop
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dreck
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drei
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dreidel
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dremel
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dresske
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drey a kop
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drey a spodik
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drey arum
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droshe geshank
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duch
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duchen
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dugma
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dugma ishit
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dugree
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durkhgetribn
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duty-length
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dveykus
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dybbuk
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eats out
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Ecclesiastes
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ech mir
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echad bape veechad balev
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echar lashon
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ee
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eema
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efsher
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egal
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Egged
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Eichah
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eidah
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eidel
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eidus
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eigene
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eighteen minutes
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Eikhah
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ein
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ein breira
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ein hachi nami
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Ein Keloheinu
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Ein Sof
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einikel
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eisek
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eitza
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ek
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ek velt
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ekht
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ekl
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ekldik
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El Male Rachamim
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ela mai
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Elijah's Chair
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Eliyahu Hanavi
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Elohim
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elu v'elu divrey elohim chayim
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Elul
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Emek
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emes
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emes haTorah
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emes velt
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emesdik
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emet me'erets titsmach
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emetser
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emunah
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en chadash tachat ha-shamesh
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en me'arvin simcha be-simcha
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engagement
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English
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Ephraim
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eppes
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erd
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Eretz Yisrael
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erev
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Erev Shabbat
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erev tov
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erlech
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erlichkeit
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ershtins
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