Definition of Melamdim

1. melamed [n] - See also: melamed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Melamdim

mel
mela
mela-
melaconite
melaena
melaenas
melagra
melagueta pepper
melain
melainotype
melainotypes
melaleuca
melaleucas
melalgia
melam
melamdim (current term)
melamed
melamine
melamine formaldehyde
melamine resin
melamines
melampode
melampyrite
melan-
melanaemia
melanagogue
melanagogues
melancholia
melancholiac
melancholiacs

Literary usage of Melamdim

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Max Lilienthal, American Rabbi: Life and Writings by Max E. Lilienthal, David Philipson (1915)
"The question was agitated only in the Bothe Mid- rashim, where the melamdim made the necessary preparations for the outbreak, gathering all their forces and ..."

2. American Journal of Education (1855-1882). (1870)
"... in establishing Hebrew schools, was particularly to liberate the Jewish youth from the pernicious influence of the ignorant and fanatical melamdim, ..."

3. Seminary Addresses and Other Papers by Solomon Schechter (1915)
"... number of private tutors in religion, or melamdim, but they are quite out of proportion to the numbers which are left without any religious instruction. ..."

4. Memoirs of David Blaustein: Educator and Communal Worker by Miriam Umstadter Blaustein (1913)
"American history, geography, and American form of government are taught, and there is a special class for melamdim, teachers of Hebrew, so that they may be ..."

5. Zeitschrift für Demographie und Statistik der Juden by Bureau für statistik der Juden, Berlin, Arthur Ruppin, Bruno Blau (1905)
"Außer den Cheder-melamdim begegnen wir in allen Städten noch ... Ihre Beschäftigung trägt den Namen „Stunden geben", während die melamdim ihre Art des ..."

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