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What a spectacular shande, he of the unfortunately appropriate surname.
Cathleen Falsani: Advice For The Gentleman From New York Cathleen Falsani 2011
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What a spectacular shande, he of the unfortunately appropriate surname.
Cathleen Falsani: Advice For The Gentleman From New York Cathleen Falsani 2011
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What a spectacular shande, he of the unfortunately appropriate surname.
Cathleen Falsani: Advice For The Gentleman From New York Cathleen Falsani 2011
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What a spectacular shande, he of the unfortunately appropriate surname.
Cathleen Falsani: Advice For The Gentleman From New York Cathleen Falsani 2011
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It was a situation that summoned another long-established idiom, this one in Yiddish: it was “a shande for the goyim”—a communal embarrassment, suffered in full view of gentile America.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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It was a situation that summoned another long-established idiom, this one in Yiddish: it was “a shande for the goyim”—a communal embarrassment, suffered in full view of gentile America.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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The extent to which Yiddish actresses disregarded this shande with their choice of profession and choice of roles is evident in the extraordinary popularity of trouser roles in Yiddish theater and film.
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As Eve Sicular writes: “The earlier transformation of the haskole (Enlightenment) movement had already opened the way for secular Jewish literature and theatre, but the idea of women in the public eye as performers was still considered a shande (disgrace) well into the twentieth century.”
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It was considered a shande [humiliation] for an observant Jewish family to permit a young woman eighteen years old to attend college.
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Liba Singer, daughter of Polish immigrants, had an illegitimate daughter, Annie, who as a shande (disgrace) was “adopted” by the family; the girl never guessed in her lifetime that “Aunty Liba” was her mother, something only her nine children by Samuel Henry Morris discovered.
New Zealand: Modern (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries). 2009
bobdoc commented on the word shande
It's a shame that no one defines shande. It's a shande that nobody speaks up.
January 25, 2010