yeshiva

See also: Yeshiva

English

Alternative forms

• yeshiba, yeshibah, yeshivah

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /jəˈʃiː.və/

Noun

yeshiva (plural yeshivas or yeshivot)

1. (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:

     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.

   • 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^[2]:

     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)
• 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.