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doikayt

doikayt is the alternative spelling of doikeyt.

Meaning of doikeyt

Noun

doikeyt (uncountable)

  1. The focus on strengthening Jewish communities wherever they live (instead of focusing on founding a separate Jewish nation-state), usually associated with Bundism.
    • Der veg tsu undzer yugnt embodied the diaspora nationalist ideology of doikeyt, or “hereness," an East European Jewish political principle that championed the legitimacy of Jewish communities wherever they found themselves.1996 08, Deborah Dash Moore, Yivo Annual Volume 23, →ISBN

Origin of doikayt

From Yiddish דאָיִקייט (doikeyt).

Questions about doikayt

What is doikayt the alternative spelling of?
Doikayt is the alternative spelling of doikeyt.

Words near doikayt in the dictionary

  1. doid
  2. Doidge
  3. doids
  4. Doig
  5. Doigs
  6. doikayt
  7. doikeit
  8. doikeyt
  9. DOIL
  10. doilem
  11. doilems

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