Word info

Litvish

Proper noun

Meaning

Litvish

The Lithuanian dialect of Yiddish.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Neturei Karta is not a Hasidic but a Litvish group, they are often mistaken for Hasidim because their style of dress (including a shtreimel on Shabbos ) is very similar to that of Hasidim. Source: Internet

The same is true for the non-Hasidic Litvish yeshivas that are controlled by dynastically transmitted rosh yeshivas and the majority of students will not become rabbis, even after many years of post-graduate kollel study. Source: Internet

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