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Litvak

Noun

Meaning

Litvak (plural Litvaks)

A Lithuanian Jew, or an Ashkenazi Jew from the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Litvak knew that charisma was a real if indefinable quality, a chemical fire that certain half-fortunate men gave off. Like any fire or talent, it was amoral, unconnected to goodness or wickedness, power or usefulness or strength. Michael Chabon

All he has to do, says the Rabbi (Menashe Lustig), is sit with the body of Mr Litvak, a Holocaust survivor, until dawn – a bit over five hours. Source: Internet

Coleman 2005, p. 271. In 1955 Leigh starred in Anatole Litvak 's film The Deep Blue Sea ; co-star Kenneth More felt he had poor chemistry with Leigh during the filming. Source: Internet

David Litvak, Gary Michael Walters, Michel Litvak, and Svetlana Metkina also serve as executive producers with Nesbo and Niclas Salomonsson. Source: Internet

It takes seven-and-a-half years to read the whole Talmud and Litvak had bought Book One on Day One of the program. Source: Internet

The envy was only heightened in Hollywood, and not helped by the fact that Davis reportedly had an affair with the director Anatole Litvak, Hopkins’s husband (a fact Davis fails to mention in either of her books). Source: Internet

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