Glossary

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Anekdot

Areintroten
Auerbach
Averbukh
Avoska

Babinskaya

Babinsky
Babi Yar
Bábushka
Balabusim
Balmalukhe
Balya
Bashert
Belaya Tserkov
Belfer
Berdichev
Berdichever
Bizoyen
Black Market
Blat
Boguslav
Bolshevik
Bolshevik Revolution
Bris

Cheder
Chuppah
Collectivization
Commissar
Communal apartment
Communism
Communist
Communist Party
Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitanism (as related to the campaign against cosmopolitans in the Soviet Union)

Dacha
Dayan
Ded
Dédushka
Deficit
Derfragen
Doctor’s Plot

East Germany
“Ehrenburg, Ilya”
Erev

Fartsovshchik

Fortochka
Froebel

Gabay

Gabinskaya
Gabinsky
Gazlunim
Gelt
Gloyben

Gnoien
Gnoyenskaya

Gnoyensky
Gott
Gubernia
Gulag
Gymnasia

HIAS

Homo Sovieticus

Izvestiya

Kalsony
Kamenets-Litovsk
Karg
Kazyonny ravvin
Kheder
Khrushchev
Khrushchevka
Kinder
Kittel
Kolkhoz
Komsomol
Konfektion
Kopf
Korsun
Kotleta
Kuppershmidt
Kurenevka Tragedy
Kvittel

Landsleit
Landsman

Landswoman
Lapti
Leitish
Lenin
Leningrad
Levkov
Lishentsy

Machatenista
Machitn
Machitunim
Maliche
Mamaloshen
Mazel
Mazeldic
Melamed
Meshchane
Meshugge
Meshuggeneh
Mitzvah

Mohel

October Revolution
Octobrist
Old Bolshevik

ORT

Pale of Settlement
Papirosa
Petersburg
Petrograd
Pioneer
Pisher
Polizei
Pravda
Primus
Propiska

Rabbetzin
Rebbe
Rabfak
Recording life events
Repressed
Rokitnoye

Samizdat
Savings Office
Shadchan
Sheygets
Shidduch
Shidduchim
Shiksa
Shister
Shivah
Shlyapochnik
Shmekhl

Shmerz
Shokhet
Shtetl
Shtinkerke
Shtreimel
Shul
Skvira

Sochnut
Socialism

Sokhnut
Soviet
Soviet Culture
Soviet Union
Spazieren
Spravka
Stalin
Stavishche
St. Petersburg

Tarashcha

Tateh

Technikum
Tetiev
The Thaw
Threesome
Tichel
Tnoyim
Tovarishch
Tricot
Tsaddik
Tsedakah

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USSR

Valaam
Valenki
Vareniki
Veterans
Voice of America (VOA)
“Vysotsky, Vladimir”

West Germany

Yahrzeit

Yerushe
Yevrey
Yevreyka
“Yevtushenko, Yevgeny”
Yid
Yidene
Yikhes

Zaftig
Zhid
Zhidovka
Zind