ḥeder
Ḥeder (Heb., ‘room’). Traditional Jewish elementary school. The term ḥeder first occurred in the 13th cent. CE. These schools were much scorned by the Maskilim of the Haskalah, leading to an attempt at modification (ḥeder metukkan, ‘reformed ḥeder’), but the attempt failed.
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