10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOYISCH»
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goyisch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
goyisch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Studies in American Jewish Literature in Honor of Sarah ...
Its values are goyisch and pagan. Its concepts are goyisch and pagan. Its way of
life is goyisch and pagan. In the entire history of European art, there has not been
a single religious [my emphasis] Jew who was a great painter (212).” Chagall ...
Carole Kessner, Ann Shapiro,
2010
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Religious Stereotyping and Interreligious Relations
Its values are goyisch and pagan. Its concepts are goyisch and pagan. In the
entire history of European art, there has not been a single religious Jew who was
a great painter.14 Indeed, Jacob's discouraging speech to Asher occupies three
full ...
Jesper Svartvik, Jakob Wirén,
2013
Yiddish was also sometimes called Jargon, but there was no trace of
condescension in the use of this term —it was merely regarded as the name of
the language which the Jews used, just as goyisch sometimes referred either to
Ukrainian or ...
... add to it or to rebel against it. Do you understand me, Asher Lev?” I nodded
slowly. “Asher Lev, it is a tradition of goyim and pagans. Its values are goyisch
and pagan. Its concepts are goyisch and pagan. Its way of life is goyisch and
pagan.
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American solitudes: individual, national, transnational
... in turn, represents strict Jewish tradition and values) and of expressing his
preference for the goyisch libertine society (goyisch being the Yiddish word for
non-Jewish). In particular, Roth's character strongly opposes the two holiest "
taboos" ...
Associazione italiana di studi nord-americani. Convegno di studio, Donatella Izzo, Giorgio Mariani,
2007
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Raising Spirits: Stories of Suffering and Comfort at Death's ...
Ever since I was a child, all the Jews I had ever known had disparaged faith
healing, the laying on of hands, as goyisch, as the kind of thing that only ignorant
Gentiles would do or believe in. Part of the reason Jews mocked non-Jews for
such ...
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Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief
True, Tracy is too puckery, too ardently goyisch, to be much of a Winchell—worse
, he's an out-and-out mama's boy, right down to sharing his spacious digs with a
doting parent—but he certainly possesses the roundhouse flair and manic ...
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The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making ...
... and ragpicker, in sum, as reader, I have attended to their singular, but not
unique,““ appearances of a closeness, however distant they may be, to the scents
of _7udentum emanating from the at-times most goyisch of textual abodes. To
that ...
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The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect
... nice white floor, there is a window looking out upon the dunes, there is a sink, a
captain's table with some chairs, pleasant light, and great comedy as our poor pa
- thetic (Jewish) hero ends up with (goyisch) lobsters scuttling around his feet.
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Why Should Jews Survive?: Looking Past the Holocaust toward ...
Redeemer. goy; pi. goyim; adj. goyisch. Originally, a biblical term for "nation," of
which the descendants of Abraham constitute one example (see, e.g., Gen. 12:2);
in rabbinic literature, however, the term comes to refer to nations or peoples ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOYISCH»
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goyisch is used in the context of the following news items.
This day in Jewish history / Taboo-trampling comic Lenny Bruce is …
One legendary routine talked about people being either “Jewish” or “goyisch,” not necessarily based on their religious identity, but more as a ... «Haaretz, Oct 13»
Smash Recap: Swing Batter Batter
... heinous and insulting piece of minstrelsy all about how she is a redneck or some goyisch bullshit, I don't know. You know it's supposed to be ... «Vulture, Feb 12»
Citizen Of a Lost World
... wrote originally in English — he goes so far as to propose to the vivacious Minka (who flatly refuses to marry him because he's too "goyisch. «New York Sun, Feb 08»