zeidi
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]zeidi (plural zeidis)
- Alternative spelling of zayde
- 2008 March 13, Harriet N. Kruman, The Huddled Masses: Jewish History in the Former Soviet Union: First-Hand Interviews with the Émigrés, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 24:
- I am acutely aware that had it not been for my father and my maternal Zeidi, who made decisions to come to the United States, I would […]
- 2010 July 2, Eilon Schwartz, At Home in the World: Human Nature, Ecological Thought, and Education after Darwin, State University of New York Press, →ISBN:
- Zvi Kress—Zeidi, as his four grandchildren affectionately called him from the Yiddish—and to my father, Nathan Schwartz.
- 2012 March 28, Moshe Kasher, Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
- Zeidi was the undisputed leader of the family, a chicken butcher by day, a Torah scholar by night, a saint by apocryphal family history. Zeidi isn't a name, by the way. Zeidi is just the Yiddish word for “grandfather […]