heder
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hadarim,
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heders
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(especially in Europe) a private Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
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(in the U.S.) Talmud Torah.
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September through May, I went to public school in the morning and to heder, Jewish school, in the afternoon.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
I had an edge on my classmates, since I had learned from my brothers, imitating them as they were doing their heder homework even if I didn't understand what they were studying.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
With a mournful melody, it tells of a rabbi teaching the Hebrew alphabet to his young students, just the way I was learning those letters in heder.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
My parents enrolled me in the heder when I was five years old.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
Opposite the house of prayer was the heder or school, where the learned and much-respected Reb Moshe ruled.
From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons
Some Jewish financiers erected gymnasia in Vilna and Warsaw, improved the condition of the hadarim, and turned many Talmud Torahs into technical schools.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin
It promoted higher education by granting monetary assistance to Jewish students, but it did nothing either for the upbuilding of a normal Jewish school or for the improvement of the heders and yeshibahs.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by I. Friedlaender
There are cases on record in which the keepers of these heders, the so-called melammeds, were put on trial for imparting to their pupils a knowledge of Russian and arithmetic.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by I. Friedlaender
In 1856 a strict supervision was established over heders and melammeds.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by I. Friedlaender
After several brief postponements the melammeds were left in peace, and by an ukase issued in 1879 the idea of abolishing the heders was dropped.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by I. Friedlaender
The heads which had but recently been bending over the Talmud folios in the stuffy atmosphere of the heders and yeshibahs were now crammed with the ideas of positivism, evolution, and socialism.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by I. Friedlaender
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