Doikayt

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Doikayt (Yiddish: דאָיִקייט, lit. 'Hereness') is a principle associated with Bundism and the Bund, especially in inter-war Poland, which states that Jews have a right to live and organize wherever they reside, and that they should focus on the challenges facing their local communities. Also transliterated as do'ikayt, doikait, doikeyt, doykait, doykayt, and doykeit, the word is a combination of the Yiddish word דאָ (romanized: do, lit. 'here'), an adjectival suffix יק (-ik), and a noun suffix -קייט (kayt, similar to '-ness'), doikayt is often posed as an opposition to dortkayt (דאָרטקייט, lit. 'thereness'), as represented by migration and the Zionist movement. Doikayt has been defined as "the political desire to solve the questions and problems of the Jews in the place where they lived, as opposed to solutions which implied migration" and as the idea that "Jews had the right to live in freedom and dignity wherever it was they stood [...] fight for freedom and safety in the places where...

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