Heder

I was wild with indignation and pity when I remembered how my poor brother had been cruelly tormented because he did not want to sit in heder and learn what was after all false or useless. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Joseph was in heder all day; the baby was a quiet little thing; Mashke was no worse than usual. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Analogizing itself from the modern heders of Eastern Europe (the so-called heder metukkan), these American schools offered girls a supplementary school curriculum that emphasized Hebrew language, grammar, conversation, and literature. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The heder was the only beginning allowable for a boy in Polotzk, and to heder Joseph must go. ❋ Mary Antin (1915)

From my youth, there awakened within me a strong yearning to study and to understand and I became envious of the young boys who were in heder who studied humash (Pentateuch) and wrote Hebrew. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She was raised in a traditional-Zionist home and educated in a heder, together with boys. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1886, a group of the most religious downtowners pooled their limited funds to establish Yeshiva Etz Chaim, a small heder for boys. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He sent his sons to heder and hired a private tutor for his daughters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Jewish male encountered the Hebrew language as an integral part of his education in the Diaspora (the heder and the yeshiva); not so the Jewish woman, who was introduced to Hebrew only if she joined the Zionist youth movements of the Diaspora, and of course upon settling in Palestine (with the exception of writers such as Devorah Baron and Nehamah Pukhachewsky, who had studied Hebrew from childhood, and writers born in Palestine). ❋ Unknown (2009)

As her friend Ita Eig-Faktorit wrote: “She prepares for this work, day by day, as if for sacred worship; she arrives early, prepares the heder (room), a kind of canvas tent erected by amateurish hands on the sands of Tel Aviv, on the road to the sea, and welcomes the girls at the entrance to the class, as a sense of festival pervades the heder, so neatly arranged and tastefully decorated.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because a Jewish education was considered more important for boys, many Jewish boys were sent to special Jewish schools, the heder and the yeshivah, while their sisters were sent to the “inferior” Polish schools where they learned Polish literature, customs, songs, prayers and manners, along with their colloquial Polish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Girls occasionally studied in heder long enough to master phonetic Hebrew reading that could be easily adapted to the reading of Yiddish texts which were written in Hebrew letters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The peddler melammed [teacher], going from door to door with siddur and Humash in hand, teaching boys and girls their aleph-bet, or the Old World rabbi confronting scores of boys in a basement heder, stood in stark contrast to the modern public school, with its imposing building and its corps of well-trained American teachers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Boys were educated in the Talmud Torah system, at heder, or with private or visiting teachers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her father received a Jewish education at heder and yeshiva, while her mother had attended elementary school. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The first stage, which began in 1851 with the founding of the first Jewish public school, in Bucharest, and continued for two decades, was marked by the departure from the traditional Jewish heder as the new Jewish elite identified the need for modernization. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Typical of this stage were private schools for daughters of the Jewish intellectual elite, referred to also as boarding schools, institutions or dormitories, which corresponded to the heder for boys. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She labored to invent new poetical language that was close to the spoken language and free of the residue of the scholarly, textual culture of the heder (European religious schools for young children). ❋ Unknown (2009)

She also dared to enter the religious heder of the Polish Synagogue of Sopot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You're such [lucky] because [your face] are so heder ❋ Itshe4er (2017)

[Go] see this [movie] [now]. ❋ The All-Knower (2004)

Person: [John Heder] is so poprockin' Other person: His name is [Jon], [dickweed] ❋ The Raconteurs (2006)

[HeCk YeS]!! A [fRiCkIn'] 12 [GuAgE], wHaT dO yOu tHiNk?!? ❋ SKaTeBoArDiNgiSnOtAcRiMe!!! (2005)

"Dude, [that John] [Heder] guy is [flippin' sweet]!" "Word." ❋ Random Jones (2005)

I wish Jon Heder [lived] [in Florida] so I could [stalk] him ❋ La Fawnduh J/k *Brit (2005)