Word: shohet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other winners included Geoffrey C. Rapp, Pejman Razavilar, Kelly A. Register, Adina H. Rosenbaum, Natalka R. Roshak, Bret R. Rutherford, Brian J. Saccente, David H. Sachs, Jesse A. Sage, Nishit Saran Nathan K. Scales, Naomi K. Seiler, Jinsesh N. Shah, Danielle E. Sherrod, Merav Shohet, Shirin A. Sinnar, Sonja B. Starr, Rebecca E. Stich, Ellen H. Takata, Connie W. Tang, Gilbert H. Tang, Xiomeng Tong, Heidi S. Towne, Omri Traub, Miriam Udel, Katherine Unterman, Ellis M. Verosub, Jason W. Veysey, David M. Weld, Bradley L. Whitman, Benjamin Wilkinson, Hong Yu, Jong H. Yun, Shouyee Yung, Ian G. Zacharia and William...
When Naftuli Ringel arrived in the U.S. in 1907, the best available job was shohet -- ritual slaughterer. But the immigrant was too sensitive for throat cutting, and he chose to become a peddler. Assimilation works wonders in America; 84 years later, his grandson has developed an unerring instinct for the jugular vein...