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Bookmark or Share- What Does "Shanda" Mean"? - Chabad.orgShanda (pronounced SHAWN-deh) is Yiddish for something scandalously shameful. In Yiddish, the word shand is used as “shame” is used in English. So after a shanda takes place, the protagonists of the event may feel that they are being put tzu shand, “to shame.”.
- shanda - Jewish English LexiconDefinitions. "Scandal, shame." (JPS) Misbehavior by a particular Jew or Jewish group that leads to embarrassment among the broader Jewish community. Example Sentences. "It's such a shanda that you did not win the award."
- How Shanda Sharer Was Tortured And Killed By Four Teenage GirlsShanda Sharer was an ordinary Indiana teenager in 1992, until four girls led by Melinda Loveless and Laurie Tackett tortured and killed her. After they'd tortured her for hours and were about to burn her alive, she could only whimper "mommy" through her mouth, filled with blood.
- Between the Lines: Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and SecrecyThe word “shanda” is defined as shame or disgrace in Yiddish. This book, Shanda, tells the story of three generations of complicated, intense 20th-century Jews for whom the desire to fit in and the fear of public humiliation either drove their aspirations or crushed their spirit.
- shanda - Wiktionary, the free dictionaryA shanda is humiliation and embarrassment one's misdeed suffers upon one's family. In our faith, a shanda is a terrible sin.
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