kichel

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noun

a sweet cracker or cookie in Jewish cuisine

OriginYiddish קיכל →
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Meanings

nounkichel (plural kichlach)

plural kichlach

  1. a sweet cracker or cookie in Jewish cuisine

    Even before the year 1800, there was a tendency to hold fancy Bar Mitzvah Seudot which led to sumptuary laws trying to limit the excess. Even so, in Eastern Europe, the party tended to be very modest, including some herring, kichel and schnapps.

    2024, David Golinkin, “The Origin and History of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 51

Origin

  1. Yiddishקיכל
  2. Englishkichel

Borrowed from Yiddish קיכל (kikhl).

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APA

kichel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kichel

MLA

“kichel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kichel. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kichel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kichel.

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