blessing.
KETUBAH, Marriage certificate.
KOSHER, Ritually clean.
KRETCHM, Tavern, inn.
“L’ETAT, C’EST MOI,” The State, I am it.
LEBE WOHL, Farewell.
LEF, A heart.
LINK, Irreligious.
LOEFFEL, A spoon.
MAARIV, Evening service.
MAGGID, Preacher.
MALACH, Angel.
MASSIG GEVOOL, Interference with the business of
another.
MAZZOL TOV, Good luck, a form of
congratulation.
MECHULLEH, A bankrupt.
MEHUTTANIM, Relatives by marriage.
MELAMMEDIM, Hebrew teachers.
MESHOLIM, Stories or parables.
MESHUMMAD OR MESHUMMED, A renegade, a pervert from Judaism.
MINCHAH, Afternoon service.
MISHNAH, Portion of the Talmud.
MISHPOCHOH, Family connections, relationship.
MITZVAH, Meritorious action, good deed.
NEDUNIAH, Dowry.
NEFOSHOS, Souls.
NIGGUN, Melody.
OVEL, A mourner.
PARNASS, President of the congregation.
PARNOSO, Livelihood, sustenance.
PEOTH, Ear curls.
PLETT, A ticket.
RACONTEUR, FEM.—_euse_, Teller of tales and anecdotes.
RAV, Official or communal rabbi.
RISHUS, Wickedness, enmity; Hebrew term for
anti-Jewish prejudice.
ROSH CHODESH, First of the Jewish month.
ROSHO, Wicked man, Jew-hater.
SCHEITEL, A cloth or wig with which religious
Jewesses cover their heads.
SCHLAFE WOHL, Sleep well.
SCHNORRERS, Beggars.
SEDRAH, The part of the Pentateuch read in
the synagogue.
SHABBOS KUGEL, Sabbath pudding.
SHAMMAS, Synagogue attendant; sexton.
SHIDDUCH, Marriage.
SHIUR, A selection from the Talmud or
devotional books.
SHIVAH, The prescribed mourning period of
seven days during which the
mourner sits on the earth and
does not leave the house.
SHOOL, Synagogue.
SOPHER, Scribe.
TAANIS, A fast day.
TALLETHIM OR TALLITHOTH, Robes or shawls worn during
services.
TEPHILLIN, Phylacteries.
PROSELYTE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, English rendition of Ger Tsedek, a
Gentile who enters into the
covenant of Judaism in all
sincerity and lives a
consistently pious and religious
life.
TORAH, The Law.
TREFAH OR TREFOTH, Forbidden food.
VIS Á VIS DE RIEN, Over against nothing—_i. e._, at a
loss, unable to do anything.
VODKA, Russian whiskey.
YEHUDI, A Jew.
YEHUDI ATTAH? Art thou a Jew?
YESHIBAH, Talmudic Academy.
ZWIEBEL TÄTCHER, Onion cake.
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Transcriber’s note:
1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
2. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as
printed.