doikeyt
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The focus on strengthening Jewish communities wherever they live (instead of focusing on founding a separate Jewish nation-state), usually associated with Bundism.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "By proclaiming a speaker's location as a site where Yiddish can flourish, doikeyt renders any place, however provisionally, as part of yidishland."
Etymology
From Yiddish דאָיִקייט (doikeyt).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: דאָיִקייט