Melamdim

Some of them, operating on the private initiative of melamdim, were established alongside synagogues of various communities: Ashkenazim, Sephardi Jews from Turkey and the Balkans, Moroccans, and Syrian Jews from Aleppo and Damascus. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While experienced teachers came to the United States with each immigrant group, among the Russians who came in the early years of the Haskalah [enlightenment] were melamdim [teachers] well-suited to the task of training children in traditional Eastern European ways. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some wives of avreichim who teach in seminaries are also learning they are not going to receive salaries on time, as is the case with rabbonim who are melamdim in yeshivos. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The transplanted Orthodox community’s sense that formal education was for boys alone was also reflected in early admission policies of both the ephemeral, independent heder melamdim and of the metropolises’ first afternoon Talmud Torahs. ❋ Unknown (2009)