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Chutzpah (Yiddish: חוצפה - / ˈ x ʊ t s p ə, ˈ h ʊ t-/) [1] [2] is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. A close English equivalent is sometimes " hubris ". The word derives from the Hebrew ḥuṣpāh ( חֻצְפָּה ), meaning "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity".
Chutzpah is a Hebrew term for audacity or nerve. Chutzpah may also refer to: ¡Chutzpah!, a 2009 album by The Wildhearts; Chutzpah Collective, a leftist Jewish collective in Chicago; Chutzpah Magazine, a defunct Chinese literary magazine; Chutzpah, a 2021 web series on SonlyLiv; Chutzpah!, a 1991 book by Alan Dershowitz; The Chutzpah or Lior ...
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin. Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw ( ת ) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) says Congress sometimes resembles a “poorly produced WWE wrestling match,” and getting the House and Senate out of the ring and working together is going to take a ...
Jewish customs of etiquette, known simply as Derekh Eretz (Hebrew: דרך ארץ, lit. ' way of the land '), [a] or what is a Hebrew idiom used to describe etiquette, is understood as the order and manner of conduct of man in the presence of other men; [1] [2] being a set of social norms drawn from the world of human interactions.
I can't seem to find an authoritative source that "chutzpah" came from Hebrew to Yiddish. Keeping in mind that Ben Yehuda reconstructed Modern Hebrew only at the beginning of the 20th century, and before then Hebrew had been a literary-only language for centuries, the key question is: did this word exist in any form of Hebrew before that time?
The first phase of the deal includes the return of 33 hostages over six weeks of peace with scores of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel also to be released.