Piyut (Hebraicized Gk.),
  liturgical poem.

Pollack (c.G.),
  Polish Jew.

Potch (c.G.),
  slap.

Rashi (H.),
  Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, whose commentary is often printed under the
  Hebrew text of the Bible.

Schlemihl (H.),
  unlucky, awkward person.

Schmuck (c.G.),
  lubberly person.

Schmull (c.G. schmollen),
  pout, sulk.

Schnecks (? G.  Schnake, gay nonsense),
  affectations.

Schnorrer (c.G.),
  beggar.

Seder (H.),
  Passover-eve ceremony.

Selaim (H.),
  old Jewish coins.

Sephardim (H.),
  Spanish and Portuguese Jews.

Shaaloth u tshuvoth (H.),
  questions and answers; casuistical treatise.

Shabbos (H.),
  Sabbath.

Shadchan (H.),
  professional match-maker.

Shaitel (c.G.),
  wig worn by married women.

Shammos (c.H.),
  beadle.

Shass (H. abbreviation),
  the six sections of the Talmud.

Shechitah (H.),
  slaughter.

Shemah beni (H.),
  Hear, my son! = Dear me!

Shemang (H.),
  confession of the Unity of God.

Shidduch (H.),
  match.

Shiksah (H.),
  non-Jewish girl.

Shnodar (H.),
  offer money to the synagogue. (An extraordinary instance of Jewish
  jargon,—­a compound Hebrew word meaning “who vows,”—­being turned
  into an English verb, and conjugated accordingly, in ed and ing.)

Shochet (H),
  official slaughterer.

Shofar (H.),
  trumpet of ram’s horn, blown during the penitential season.

Shool (c.  G.),
  synagogue.

Shulchan aruch (H.),
  a sixteenth-century compilation, codifying Jewish law.

Simchath Torah (H.),
  festival of the rejoicing of the Law.

Snoga (S.),
  Sephardic synagogue.

Spiel (G.),
  play.

Takif (H.),
  rich man, swell.

Talith (H.),
  a shawl with fringes, worn by men during prayer.

Tanaim (H.),
  betrothal contract or ceremony.

Terah, Torah (H.),
  Law of Moses.

Tephillin (H.),
  phylacteries.

Tripha (H.),
  ritually unclean.

Wurst (G.),
  sausage.

Yiddish, Yiddishkeit (c.G.),
  Jewish, Judaism.

Yigdal (H.),
  hymn summarizing the thirteen creeds drawn up by Maimonides.

Yom Kippur (H.),
  Day of Atonement.

Yom tof (H.), lit.,
  good day; Festival.

Yontovdik (hybrid H.),
  pertaining to the Festival.