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Sukkot

History; Israeli history

Seven-day Jewish fall festival beginning on Tishri 15 commemorating the Sukkot where the Israelites lived in the wilderness after the Exodus; also known as hag haasiph, the ...

chumra

History; Israeli history

(Talmudic Hebrew) Stringency—custom of a community to observe more strictly.

Shemini Atzeret

History; Israeli history

The Eighth Day of Assembly. An eight-day festival that immediately follows the seven-day festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles).

Lebensborn

History; Israeli history

(The Fountain of Life).“An SS society founded in 1936.... Its main functions were to adopt suitable children for childless SS families, to succor racially sound pregnant women and ...

Ha-Shomer Ha-Tza'ir

History; Israeli history

(The Young Guardsman) Socialist-Zionist pioneering youth movement founded in 1913.

baleboosteh

History; Israeli history

(Yid. F, From the Heb. Ba'alat Ha'bayit) The lady of the house, and usually an especially praiseworthy one.

Greeners

History; Israeli history

(Yid. Green people) Term used affectionately by many Holocaust survivors to refer to inexperienced people, particularly new immigrants.