yeshiva
See also: Yeshiva
English
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Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /jəˈʃiː.və/
Noun
yeshiva (plural yeshivas or yeshivot)
- (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.
- 2015, Will Self, ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, vol. 37 no.5:
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