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Word: shikkered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think I'll go out and get plastered, then I won't be so upset by articles like "Jews & Alcohol" [March 17]. Yale's Professor Charles Snyder certainly makes us sound like a self-satisfied, overfed bunch of stinkers. And that song, Shikker Iz a Goy! I'm from an Orthodox Jewish background, and I have never heard of it. The Yale researchers said many could recall it; they must have been oldtimers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1958 | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...such translations of the lively ditty Shikker Iz a Goy that send Jews like me reeling to the refrigerator for a glass of Manischewitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1958 | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...Shikker Iz a Goy. The Yale researchers found many a Jew who stoutly denied having been brought up to believe that Jews are more temperate than Gentiles. Yet many could be prompted into remembering the old Yiddish song, Shikker Iz a Goy (Drunken Is a Gentile). Translation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jews & Alcohol | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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