landsleit

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lands·leit

(länts′līt′)

pl.n.

Fellow Jews who come from the same district or town, especially in Eastern Europe.

[Yiddish landslayt, from Middle High German lantsliute, natives, compatriots : lant, land; see landsman² + liute, pl. of liut, person, people (from Old High German; see leudh- in Indo-European roots).]

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Tevye's landsleit could cope with tsarist pogroms, but not Nazi Einsatzgruppen.

DO THEY CONTRADICT THEMSELVES? VERY WELL THEN THEY CONTRADICT THEMSELVES

(27) Immigrant families took in relatives as well as landsleit (those from their home towns in Eastern Europe).

Mapping Work in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal: A Rabbi, a Neighbourhood, and a Community

Families provided household space for newly-arrived relatives as well as landsleit (those from their home towns in Eastern Europe).

Little fists for social justice: anti-semitism, community, and Montreal's Aberdeen School Strike, 1913

Epstein might have been thinking of David, or he might have been thinking of his father's landsleit who had not escaped EuropeEichmann's trial had been broadcast here just half a year earlierwhen he noted in his decision that "recent history has proven the evil of an attempt at controlling the utterances and thoughts of our population." Whatever his inspiration, Epstein ruled in favor of Americans' right to buy and read Miller's novel.

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Rather they started as peddlers or small business-people, used family, landsleit, and religious connections, and entered the middle class.