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..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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.
By proclaiming a speaker's location as a site where Yiddish can flourish, doikeyt renders any place, however provisionally, as part of yidishland.
Use doikeyt when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
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..
Common synonyms include diasporism, Jewish hereness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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