kehillan.

1882 tr. L. Kompert Scenes from Ghetto 67 She grew up, became beautiful, and in all the kille people talked of nothing but Hendel, the daughter of Rebb Paltiel Wolf.

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 126 Every town which could muster the minimum of ten men for worship boasted its Kehillah.

1950 J. Hersey Wall i. i. 20 The Judenrat had been formed a month earlier, to the day. The Germans told us then that the Kehilla, or Community Council, would henceforth become the Judenrat and would be the instrument of German authority over the Jews.

1961 Observer 3 Dec. 10/6 The formal communities of Russian Jews, the kehilot, were abolished in 1919 and never restored.

1967 N. Cohn Warrant for Genocide vii. 163 The official New York Jewish community organization,..under the name Kehilla (Yiddish for ‘Kahal’) was chiefly concerned with protecting and educating Jewish immigrants.

1971 Jewish Communities of World (Inst. Jewish Affairs) (ed. 3) 29 The Buenos Aires Community (Kehillah) is the largest.

1971 Jewish Communities of World (Inst. Jewish Affairs) (ed. 3) 90 There are no organized local Communities (Kehillot) in France.

1973 Jewish Chron. 2 Feb. 7/2 We have no intention..of creating a separatist movement or a new kehilla or some political group.