goyishkeit
/ˈɡɔɪ.ɪʃ.kaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“But what makes you think of such things now?” Asked Abbie. “Last week you were cheerful about everything, even the goyishkeit in America. What has happened?”"
- "What troubles me is an attitude of disdain or indifference for the feelings of non-Jews towards us which seems to me incompatible with the Jewish concept of Kiddush Hashem whereby we are to care very deeply about the opinions and feelings of Goyim (Gentiles) concerning us. The Rebbe calls such concern "the Goyishkeit within us,"[…]"
- "More than other nationalities, the Irish came to signify an unadulterated kind of goyishkayt, a Gentile essence that was seen as the innate opposite of Jewishness."