TREIF Not kosher, ritually unclean. By extension, profane books.
TZENA U’RENA Literally, Hebrew for “go out and see”; the name of a late seventeenth-century Yiddish version of the Pentateuch intended primarily for women.
TZIBALEH An infant born in the seventh month of pregnancy; used to designate someone small and frail.
YAGEDES Blackberries.
YAHOUPITZ The fictional name for Kiev in the stories of Sholem Aleichem.
YEKKE A German.
YESHIVA BUCHER A youth who studies at a yeshiva, and whose needs are provided for by the community or by his wife.
YICHES Family status or prestige.
YINGALEH Yiddish for boy, child.
ZANYEDVANY Polish for slob or bum.
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The entries follow the order of the Hebrew alphabet.—Tr.
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