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Definition of Heder
1. Noun. An elementary school in which students are taught to read Hebrew texts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heder
1. a Jewish school [n HEDERS or HADARIM]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heder
Literary usage of Heder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare's Pronunciation [II]: A Shakespeare Reader in the Old Spelling by Wilhelm Viëtor (1906)
"... aend turn hiz meri no:t untu de swi:t birdz 6ro:t, kum heder, kum heder, kum
heder: 5 he:r jael hi si: no enemi: but winter aend ruf weder. hwu: du6 ..."
2. Past and Present: A Collection of Jewish Essays by Israel Friedlaender (1919)
"The heder, which is a very ancient Jewish institution, was, ... The heder may be
subdivided into two kinds: First, the elementary heder in which the ..."
3. The Promised Land by Mary Antin (1912)
"My father distinctly remembers that she wept on the way to the heder; partly,
... Five years old when he entered heder, at eleven he was already a ..."
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