Piyut (Hebraicized Gk.),
liturgical poem.
Pollack (c.G.),
Polish Jew.
Potch (c.G.),
slap.
Rashi (H.),
Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, whose commentary
is often printed under the
Hebrew text of the Bible.
Schlemihl (H.),
unlucky, awkward person.
Schmuck (c.G.),
lubberly person.
Schmull (c.G. schmollen),
pout, sulk.
Schnecks (? G. Schnake, gay nonsense),
affectations.
Schnorrer (c.G.),
beggar.
Seder (H.),
Passover-eve ceremony.
Selaim (H.),
old Jewish coins.
Sephardim (H.),
Spanish and Portuguese Jews.
Shaaloth u tshuvoth (H.),
questions and answers; casuistical treatise.
Shabbos (H.),
Sabbath.
Shadchan (H.),
professional match-maker.
Shaitel (c.G.),
wig worn by married women.
Shammos (c.H.),
beadle.
Shass (H. abbreviation),
the six sections of the Talmud.
Shechitah (H.),
slaughter.
Shemah beni (H.),
Hear, my son! = Dear me!
Shemang (H.),
confession of the Unity of God.
Shidduch (H.),
match.
Shiksah (H.),
non-Jewish girl.
Shnodar (H.),
offer money to the synagogue. (An extraordinary
instance of Jewish
jargon,—a compound Hebrew word
meaning “who vows,”—being turned
into an English verb, and conjugated accordingly,
in ed and ing.)
Shochet (H),
official slaughterer.
Shofar (H.),
trumpet of ram’s horn, blown during
the penitential season.
Shool (c. G.),
synagogue.
Shulchan aruch (H.),
a sixteenth-century compilation, codifying
Jewish law.
Simchath Torah (H.),
festival of the rejoicing of the Law.
Snoga (S.),
Sephardic synagogue.
Spiel (G.),
play.
Takif (H.),
rich man, swell.
Talith (H.),
a shawl with fringes, worn by men during
prayer.
Tanaim (H.),
betrothal contract or ceremony.
Terah, Torah (H.),
Law of Moses.
Tephillin (H.),
phylacteries.
Tripha (H.),
ritually unclean.
Wurst (G.),
sausage.
Yiddish, Yiddishkeit (c.G.),
Jewish, Judaism.
Yigdal (H.),
hymn summarizing the thirteen creeds drawn
up by Maimonides.
Yom Kippur (H.),
Day of Atonement.
Yom tof (H.), lit.,
good day; Festival.
Yontovdik (hybrid H.),
pertaining to the Festival.