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Mensch

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is "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being 'a real mensch' is nothing less than character, rectitude, dignity, a sense of what is right, responsible, decorous." The term is used as a high compliment, implying the rarity and value of that individual's qualities.
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is a particularly good person, similar to a "stand-up guy", a person with the qualities one would hope for in a friend or trusted colleague.
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and the underlying concept have had an impact on popular culture. For example, the "
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to describe what characterizes a better human being. The concept goes back to
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Israel's Mensch on the Bench mascot at World Baseball Classic
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roughly means "a good person". The word has migrated as a
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Index

Mensch (disambiguation)
Yiddish
Middle High German
Old High German
Old English
Leo Rosten
Yiddish
loanword
American English
Age of Enlightenment
philosophical
compassion
Humanism
Cicero
humanitas
Mensch on a Bench
Hanukkah
Team Israel at the World Baseball Classic
Gabe Cramer
Gutmensch
Kalos kagathos
Moral idealist
Übermensch
Untermensch
mensch
Merriam-Webster
The Joys of Yiddish
Israel's Mensch on the Bench mascot at World Baseball Classic
Newsday
Modern Philology

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