Definition of "Yiddishkeit"
Yiddishkeit
noun
uncountable
Jewishness; the Jewish way of life, particularly Ashkenazi and Yiddish culture.
Quotations
“In America, everything is called Yiddishkeit,” Rav Kalman said. “A Jew travels to synagogue on Shabbos in his car, that is called Yiddishkeit. A Jew eats ham but gives money to philanthropy, that is called Yiddishkeit. A Jew prays three times a year but is a member of a synagogue, that is called Yiddishkeit. Judaism”—he pronounced the word in English, contemptuously: Joo-dah-eeism—“everything in America calls itself Judaism.”
1969, Chaim Potok, The Promise, New York: Anchor Books, 2005, Chapter Six