heder

[khey-duhr, khey-der, -hey-]

noun

Yiddish.

plural

hadarim ,

plural

heders .

1. (especially in Europe) a private Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.

2. (in the U.S.) Talmud Torah.

heder

/ ˈheɪdə, ˈxɛdɛr /

noun

1. a variant spelling of cheder

Example Sentences

In 2021, Apple TV+ purchased Siân Heder’s “CODA” for a record-breaking $25 million.

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“CODA,” directed by Sian Heder and starring Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Emilia Jones and Daniel Durant, took home three Academy Awards in 2022, including the best picture prize.

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Players also got to put names to faces of some of game's wider cast, including bank robber Raul Bautista, smuggler Brian Heder and rap combo Real Dimez.

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“I was just hoping the movie would find a buyer,” Siân Heder, the film’s director, told me months after Sundance.

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By the time it won the Oscar — and Heder had collected the trophy for adapted screenplay — “CODA” had moved from being what its star, Marlee Matlin, called a “tidal wave of awareness” for the Deaf community to a “tsunami” on just about every front.

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