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English translation: treasurer


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Czech term or phrase:gabe
English translation:treasurer
Entered by: Radovan Pletka
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Czech to English translations [PRO]
Religion / Zrejme jidis vyraz
Czech term or phrase: gabe
Prekladam stare genealogicke informace do anglictiny.
Context... obchodnik v Trutnove a gabe
Je to zidovska rodina, takze predpokladam, ze je to nejaka funkce nebo cinnost spojena s zidovskym nabozenstvim.
Radovan Pletka
United States
Local time: 10:44
answer below
Explanation:
(pl., gabbaim) (a) person responsible for the proper functioning of a synagogue or other communal body; (b) a kind of organizing secretary to a Rebbe.

treasurer or honorary official of a Jewish Orthodox congregation, often placed in charge of funds used for charity. The office is a carry-over from former times, when men whose reputations were above reproach collected funds for charity. These gabba'e tzedaqa were so esteemed that no financial reports were ever asked for. The word Gabe comes from Hebrew not German
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Kris Nowicki
Poland
Local time: 19:44
Grading comment
Thanks fopr explanation
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Summary of answers provided
5answer below
Kris Nowicki
5 -1Gabe je židovské jméno
Radka Grossova
3 +1treasurerMaria Chmelarova
2dar; talent
Klara Hurkova


Discussion entries: 3





  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Gabe je židovské jméno


Explanation:
např. http://www.hagshama.org.il/en/resources/expand_author.asp?la...

Radka Grossova
Czech Republic
Local time: 19:44
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Kris Nowicki: not in this context.
3 hrs

disagree  Maria Chmelarova: It's last name too, truth, but in this context it is not about last name, because... " obchdnik v Trutnove a gabe ( gabbe) ....
19 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
dar; talent


Explanation:
prelozeno z nemciny (jidis je na bazi nemciny)

Klara Hurkova
Germany
Local time: 19:44
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Kris Nowicki: this word is particularly of Hebrew one not the German origin
3 hrs

neutral  Maria Chmelarova: perhaps in G.l. ...
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
answer below


Explanation:
(pl., gabbaim) (a) person responsible for the proper functioning of a synagogue or other communal body; (b) a kind of organizing secretary to a Rebbe.

treasurer or honorary official of a Jewish Orthodox congregation, often placed in charge of funds used for charity. The office is a carry-over from former times, when men whose reputations were above reproach collected funds for charity. These gabba'e tzedaqa were so esteemed that no financial reports were ever asked for. The word Gabe comes from Hebrew not German

Kris Nowicki
Poland
Local time: 19:44
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish, Native in HebrewHebrew
PRO pts in category: 8
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Thanks fopr explanation
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
gabbe
treasurer


Explanation:
"There was a time when the treasurer (the gabbe) of the synagogue was one of the authorities....
...the treasurer was second after the Rabbi; he was one of the seven dignataries of the town".


    www.jewishgen.org >>>( The Silbershtein Dynasty by: N. Daicz)
Maria Chmelarova
United States
Local time: 13:44
Native speaker of: Native in SlovakSlovak
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  lingua chick
11 hrs
  -> Thanks, lingua chick.
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