Word: goyim
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...massive hulk of a man, is a Russian Jew whose family fled to the Warsaw ghetto, then to Palestine to escape both the pogroms of the goyim and the onslaught of the Nazis. But in Palestine there were the Arabs to contend with. In order to survive, the Jews had to become killers, and Itzhak Hod became one of the best they had. After the war Hod joined the hunt for escaped Nazi war criminals, and he became very good at that...
...movement. He could point out that in the U.S., more and more Reform families actively celebrate religious holidays such as Sukkot (Feast of the Tabernacles) and recite the traditional Kiddush (sanctification of the wine) on Friday night. Says Hirsch: "Even the Orthodox in America don't call us goyim [Hebrew for gentiles] any more." It may take a while for their Israeli counterparts to change their minds...
Jewish Blues. In other short stories, Ronald Sukenick coolly chronicles a tale about some free-floating hippies flying "an impossible, ultimate kite" over the East River; and Philip Roth incants a Newark ghetto boyhood in The Jewish Blues. ("The goyim pretended to be something special, while we were actually their moral superiors. And what made us superior was precisely the hatred and the disrespect they lavished so willingly upon...
Your editor must have been meshuga to have let that word schwanz slip by. Don't you goyim know that this is a schmutzike word, not used by fineh men-schen in a national magazine? You don't have to be Jewish to use the words, but you sure have to be Jewish to know what they mean in order to use them correctly and not get fahrblundjet. Don't be a nahr. Ask me next time you get the urge to zich austzeigen your knowledge of yiddishe chochmes...
...Chutzpa-nerve; meshuga-crazy; goyim-gentiles; schmutzike-dirty; fineh menschen-nice people; fahrbhundjet-very, very lost; nahr-fool; zich austzeigen-show off; chochmes-jokes, wisecracks...