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#yiddishbodyparts

	1. Skull a) Oygn – eyes b) Sharbn – skull c) Ruknbeyn – spine d) Tson – tooth
	2. Shoulder a) Aksl – shoulder b) Kinbeyn – jawbone c) Nozlekher – nostrils d) Pyate – heel
	3. Ribs a) Kni – knee b) Gombe – chin c) Pakhve – armpit d) Ripn – ribs
	4. Hand a) Hant – hand b) Fusfinger – toe c) Elnboygn – elbow d) Bekn – pelvis
	5. Foot a) Orem – arm b) Haldz – neck c) Fus – foot (also leg) d) Pupik – bellybutton

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Illustrations: Crops from an anatomical diagram of a skeleton found in the anatomy notebook of a student at a Tsentrale Yidishe Shul-Organizatsye school (Central Yiddish School Organization, TSYSHO). The names of each bone are labeled in Yiddish. Oshmene, Poland, 1937. YIVO Archives.

Congratulations! You’re a Yiddish master!

#yiddishbodyparts

1. Skull

2. Shoulder

3. Ribs

4. Hand

5. Foot