doikeyt

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doikeyt

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From Yiddish דאָיִקייט (doikeyt).

noun doikayt · doikeit

uncountable The focus on strengthening Jewish communities wherever they live (instead of focusing on founding a separate Jewish nation-state), usually associated with Bundism. Der veg tsu undzer yugnt embodied the diaspora nationalist ideology of doikeyt, or “hereness," an East European Jewish political principle that championed the legitimacy of Jewish communities wherever they found themselves.
Similar: diasporism, hereness, Jewish hereness

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@misc{doikeyt_2026,
  title = {doikeyt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/doikeyt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}