doikeyt

English

Etymology

From Yiddish דאָיִקייט (doikeyt).

Noun

doikeyt (uncountable)

1. The focus on strengthening Jewish communities wherever they live (instead of the focusing on making a separate Jewish nation-state), usually associated with Bundism
   • 1996 08, Deborah Dash Moore, Yivo Annual Volume 23, →ISBN:

     Der veg tsu undzer yugnt embodied the diaspora nationalist ideology of doikeyt, or “hereness," an East European Jewish political principle that championed the legitimacy of Jewish communities wherever they found themselves.

   • 2020, Jeffrey Shandler, Yiddish: Biography of a Language, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 36:

     By proclaiming a speaker's location as a site where Yiddish can flourish, doikeyt renders any place, however provisionally, as part of yidishland.