| 释义 |
yeshiva|jəˈʃiːvə|
Also yeshiba(h, yeshivah, and with capital initial. Pl. yeshivoth, yeshiva(h)s; also yeshibot.
[a. Heb. yĕšīḇāh, f. yashav to sit.]
An Orthodox Jewish college or seminary; a Talmudic academy.
1851Living Age XXIX. 154/2 The hope of seeing him one day decorated with the dignity of rabbi..will impel them cheerfully to make all the sacrifices which his outfit and partial support at the yeshibah (academy) entail. 1881Encycl. Brit. XIII. 681/2 The rabbis received their education at the Yeshiboth (‘sessions’ of academies devoted to the Talmud, the Shulchan Aruch, and their commentators). 1904Sat. Rev. 24 Sept. 404/1 The Jewish orphan..is brought up..at a yeshiva, or seminary, where the Talmud is almost the sole object of study. 1916H. Sacher Zionism & Jewish Future 38 They had passed by so swift and drastic a revolution from the Cheder and the Yeshiba to the Gymnasium and the University, that the only culture they were interested in was German culture. 1926S. Ash Kiddush Ha-Shem x. 88 Famed far and wide were the yeshivahs of Poland. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulfulment iii. i. 295 Israel's first Prime Minister..and many of the other political leaders, started their education in the Yeshivot, the religious schools of Russian Jewry. 1957Encycl. Brit. XIII. 63D/1 Orthodox Judaism created the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological seminary in New York (1896), which developed into the Yeshiva university, a liberal arts college. 1960L. P. Gartner Jewish Immigrant in England, 1870–1914 ii. 39 Yekuthiel Sussmann Schlosser..arrived in 1852 as an itinerant solicitor for a projected yeshibah in Kalish. 1965J. A. Michener Source 461 Sometimes the yeshiva students contrived ingenious answers. Ibid. 705 He..tries always to attend one of the yeshivot. 1976C. Bermant Coming Home i. i. 17 Yeghivah students..had been equipped for a life of prayer, contemplation and study. 1981Amer. Speech LVI. 3 Orthodox Jews are typically strict Sabbath observers who maintain their own religious day schools and yeshivas. 1985Listener 3 Jan. 27/3 He overcomes this obstacle by making a donation to a yeshiva, or religious seminar. |