doikeyt
doikeyt noun: the focus on strengthening Jewish communities wherever they live (instead of focusing on founding a separate Jewish nation-state), usually associated with Bundism.
Noun
doikeyt (uncountable)
- 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
- By proclaiming a speaker's location as a site where Yiddish can flourish, doikeyt renders any place, however provisionally, as part of yidishland.2020, Jeffrey Shandler, Yiddish: Biography of a Language, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 36
- Synonyms:
- diasporism, hereness, Jewish hereness
Synonyms of doikeyt
Forms of doikeyt
| alternative form | doikayt |
|---|---|
| alternative form | doikeit |
Origin of doikeyt
From Yiddish דאָיִקייט (doikeyt).
Questions about doikeyt
- What does doikeyt mean?
- Doikeyt means the focus on strengthening Jewish communities wherever they live (instead of focusing on founding a separate Jewish nation-state), usually associated with Bundism.
- What part of speech is doikeyt?
- Doikeyt is a noun.
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