Yiddishkeit

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Jewishness; the Jewish way of life, particularly Ashkenazi and Yiddish culture.
 * 2) * 1969, ', ', New York: Anchor Books, 2005, Chapter Six,
 * “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.”
 * 1) * 2000, (translator), “The Shochet’s Wife” in More Stories from My Father’s Court by  (1956), New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 17,
 * He wants a loose girl, a bareheaded piece who doesn’t keep Yiddishkeit.
 * He wants a loose girl, a bareheaded piece who doesn’t keep Yiddishkeit.

Translations

 * German:
 * Hebrew: יִידִישְׁקַיְיט
 * Yiddish: ייִדישקייט