besoylem

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Example Sentences

  • "Around the Jewish besoylem [cemetery], where the Germans had carried out the hariges [killings] of Jews and honest Soviet citizens, were about 500 of their accursed henchmen." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • Y בית־עולם bes-oylem

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

      Alternative Spellings

      besoylm, besoilem, besoilm

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