Gershom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Gershom
From Hebrew Gēreshōm “a sojourner there”
Example Sentences
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Author Gershom Mabaquiao explains that the trend started off being about "the unseriousness of self-presentation", but since it has become bigger than social media and permeated society, it's being interpreted in a "very literal way".
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2024
Perhaps the two most notable Jewish scholars of this period were Moses Maimonides and Levi ben Gershom.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
The false 18th century Messiah Jacob Frank “will always be remembered as one of the most frightening phenomena in the whole of Jewish history,” as Gershom Scholem put it.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2022
“Even more than the psychology of the leader, it is the psychology of the led that demands to be understood,” wrote Gershom Scholem, the great historian of Jewish messianism.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2022
The magistrate glanced at the writing and handed the copybook to Gershom Bulkeley.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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