zaida

plural zaidas

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of zayde.

   The great Rav Akiba showed us, didn't he, Zaida [grandfather in Yiddish]?

   2018 February 28, Samantha Baskind, The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 18

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   But while Zaida was alive we always went for Seder dinner on the first night of Pesach, the Jewish holiday commemorating the Exodus from Egypt.

   2015 September 22, Dan Burt, You Think It Strange: A Memoir, ABRAMS, →ISBN

   Zaida's father, my great-grandfather, was pious and reputed to be a melamed, a learned though poor Orthodox Jew.

   2022 October 7, Dan Burt, Every Wrong Direction: An Emigré’s Memoir, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 3