yeshiva

See also: Yeshiva

English

Alternative forms

• yeshivah

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Yiddish ישיבה (yeshive), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hebrew יְשִׁיבָה (y'shivá, “meeting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jəˈʃiː.və/

Noun

yeshiva (plural yeshivas or yeshivot)

1. (Judaism) An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.
   • 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 and Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents‎^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• rosh yeshiva

Translations

academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts

• French: yeshiva (fr) f
• German: Jeschiwa f
• Hebrew: יְשִׁיבָה (he) f (y'shivá)
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• Polish: jesziwa (pl) f, jeszybot (pl) m, jesziba (pl) f
• Russian: еши́ва f (ješíva), иеши́ва (ru) f (iješíva)
• Yiddish: ישיבה f (yeshive)

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French

Noun

yeshiva f (plural yeshivas)

1. yeshiva