heder
Americannoun
plural
hadarim,plural
heders-
(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.
noun
Example Sentences
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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
My parents enrolled me in the heder when I was five years old.
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
On the day when our steamer ticket arrived, my mother did not go out with her basket, my brother stayed out of heder, and my sister salted the soup three times.
From The Promised Land by Antin, Mary
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