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cheder
cheder
English
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Noun
cheder (plural cheders or chederim or chedarim or chadarim or chadorim)
- An elementary school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew.
- 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, p. 51:
- A businessman in New York who happened to be in the Midlands at the time was so impressed by Asher's methods that he was funding him to set up a string of chederim – Sunday schools for Jews – all over the United States.
- 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, p. 51:
Translations
school