Schechter

[shek-ter]

noun

1. Solomon, 1847–1915, U.S. Hebraist, born in Romania.

Example Sentences

“Cut off from all social contacts, completely separated from the life of the community, condemned to an existence of crushing poverty in a remote and desolate region with two tormented and inimical parents, Eddie — never emotionally strong to begin with — was retreating farther and farther into a private world of fantasy,” Schechter writes.

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Upon entering Gein’s farm shed, authorities found Worden’s naked corpse hanging and mutilated “like some game animal that’s been dressed out after the kill,” “Deviant” author Schechter said in the documentary.

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In his 1989 true crime book “Deviant,” Harold Schechter characterizes the young Gein as a social outcast, resentful of almost everyone but his mother.

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Hope Mendoza Schechter, a former garment worker, co-founded Community Services Organization, which in 1949 helped Ed Roybal become L.A.’s first Latino councilmember in the 20th century.

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“We’re the ones that literally put the campaigns on, and they need us,” the book quotes Mendoza Schechter saying about how male candidates treated women back then.

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