yeshiva

See also: Yeshiva

English

Alternative forms

• yeshiba, yeshibah, yeshivah, eshiba, eshiva

Etymology

From Yiddish ישיבה (yeshive), from Hebrew יְשִׁיבָה (y'shivá, “sitting”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /jəˈʃiː.və/

Noun

yeshiva (plural yeshivas or yeshivot)

2. (education, Judaism) An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.
   • 1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 6 November 2020:

     Nonetheless, in 1976, after graduating with a B.A. in religious studies, he entered Yale's doctoral program in the same department. A year later, he left Yale to study Talmud in a Manhattan yeshiva.

   • 2014 April 22, Josh Nathan-Kazis, “Is Hasidic Board To Blame for Gutting Public Schools in N.Y. Town?”, in The Forward‎^[2], archived from the original on 20 April 2021:

     Ultra-Orthodox Jews who don’t send their kids to the public schools control the majority of seats on the local school board. And the families who do send their kids to the public schools say the board members favor the private yeshivas in the district at the expense of the public schools.

   • 2015, Will Self, ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, vol. 37 no.5:

     Shalom grew up in an Orthodox family in Stamford Hill. His father, who ran an office-furniture business, intended him for a synagogue cantor, and when Shalom finished school he was sent to the yeshiva.

   • 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents‎^[3], archived from the original on 8 August 2020:

     Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.

Coordinate terms

• cheder

Derived terms

• rosh yeshiva
• Yeshiva English
• Yeshivish

Translations

academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts

• Aramaic: מְתִיבָה f (mǝṯīḇā)
• Esperanto: jeŝivo
• French: yeshiva (fr) f
• German: Jeschiwa f
• Hebrew: יְשִׁיבָה (he) f (y'shivá)
• Hindi: येशिवा f (yeśivā)
• Hungarian: jesiva (hu)
• Italian: Yeshivah (it) f
• Ladino: yeshiva f
• Polish: jesziwa (pl) f, jeszybot (pl) m, jesziba (pl) f
• Russian: еши́ва f (ješíva), иеши́ва (ru) f (iješíva)
• Turkish: yeşiva
• Yiddish: ישיבה f (yeshive)

French

Noun

yeshiva f (plural yeshivas)

1. yeshiva

Further reading

• “yeshiva”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012