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doikeyt en · NOUN

Etymology

From Yiddish דאָיִקייט (doikeyt).

Meanings

1. (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:

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Synonyms

diasporism · hereness · Jewish hereness