zeidi

plural zeidis

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of zayde.

   Zvi Kress—Zeidi, as his four grandchildren affectionately called him from the Yiddish—and to my father, Nathan Schwartz.

   2010 July 2, Eilon Schwartz, At Home in the World: Human Nature, Ecological Thought, and Education after Darwin, State University of New York Press, →ISBN

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   I am acutely aware that had it not been for my father and my maternal Zeidi, who made decisions to come to the United States, I would[…]

   2008 March 13, Harriet N. Kruman, The Huddled Masses: Jewish History in the Former Soviet Union: First-Hand Interviews with the Émigrés, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 24

   Zeidi was the undisputed leader of the family, a chicken butcher by day, a Torah scholar by night, a saint by apocryphal family history. Zeidi isn't a name, by the way. Zeidi is just the Yiddish word for “grandfather[…]

   2012 March 28, Moshe Kasher, Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN