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In North American and other diaspora Jewish communities, the use of "shiksa" reflects more social complexities than merely being a mild insult to non-Jewish women. A woman can only be a shiksa if she is perceived as such by Jewish people, usually Jewish men, making the term difficult to define; the Los Angeles Review of Books suggested there ...
An ethnonym is the name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (where the name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms or endonyms (self-designation; where the name is created and used by the ethnic group itself).
(Yiddish, Jewish colloq. Australia) an Arab - Shmata = rag (towel), kop = head; indicating the Arab traditional Kaffiyeh Siv (Armenia) a black person Sompanssi (Finland) A Somali. Compare simpanssi (chimpanzee). Somu (Finland) A Somali Spaghetti or Spaghettifresser (Germany and Finland) Italian Sudaca (Spain) a South American person. Szwab
Shabbos goy: A non-Jew who performs labour forbidden on the Jewish Sabbath for observant Jews; sometimes used (by implication) for someone who "does the dirty work" for another person. (from Yiddish שבת Shabbos, Sabbath and גױ goy, a non-Jew) shep naches (Yid. שעפּ נחת): take pride. Sometimes shortened to "shep".
The term schvartze has been described as "the Jewish N-word" or "the Yiddish N-word". [5] [6] [7] [failed verification]Among white South African Jews, the term has a history of being used to describe Black South Africans, as well as Indian South Africans and Coloured South Africans.
The word Yid (/ ˈ j iː d /; Yiddish: איד), also known as the Y-word, [1] is a Jewish ethnonym of Yiddish origin. It is used as an autonym within the Ashkenazi Jewish community, and also used as slang by European football fans, antisemites, and others.
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This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).