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Thanks for the yiddish lesson, Keith, My grandmother used "Shiksa" to refer to any non-jewish woman. Though it was always said with an unmistakable shading of contempt I never suspected that it means vermin. O yes she also used shvartza - (yiddish for n____). The constant need to discern who is and who is not jewish (and therefore contempible) is one of those cultural traits that made me run several thousand miles from my home-town jewish community.
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Message was posted to an online
conversation by a woman in her forties, from the East Coast, now living on the
West Coast.
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NOTE: As mentioned, the research I
conducted twenty years ago had one goal: to hear from Polish people and from
Jewish people how they understood their own identities and how they understood
the other's identity. For me, as an ethnographer, data was key. There was no
such thing as good data or bad data. This post contains material that many will
find offensive. Again, for an ethnographer, this data is as valid as data that
provides a warm, fuzzy feeling. Too, what this person wrote is not meant to be
representational. We can't conclude from this post that most Jews feel this
way, or even that this woman would feel this way two weeks after posting this
message.
"To
Chew Someone Down" Bieganski Interview #1
"Poles
are Inherently Comic Janitors" Bieganski Interview # 2
"My
Father Began to Conceal His Jewish Origins" Bieganski Interview # 3
They
Worked Like Moles Their Whole Lives Bieganski Interview # 4
"She
Never, and I Mean Never, Threw Anything Away" Bieganski Interview # 5
"They
Always Kept One Token Jew" Bieganski Interview # 6
"White
Privilege? I Laugh" Bieganski Interview # 7
"Stalin
Died and I Was Set Free" #8
"The
Jew is Clever. The Pole is Obnoxious, Loud, and Stupid." #9
"My
Grandfather Let Anastasia Escape" #10
"I
Have Always Been Afraid to Get Close to Any 'Real' Jews"# 12
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