Klarinet Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2005/04

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Concert Announcement
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 08:32:53 -0400

Brad Bunnin wrote:

> I don't believe Yiddish is an ethnic slur; it's the name of a
> language and a culture centered in Eastern Europe, transplanted to the
> United States, among other countries, in the late 19th-early 20th
> centuries. "Yid" just means "Jew," in Yiddish. If non-Yids put a
> negative spin on it, that's their problem!

OK, that's interesting. I knew that Yiddish signified a language and
culture (and that the word simply means Jewish) but I had assumed that
"Yid" was simply a casual abbreviation like "Paki", the latter being
obviously offensive through its association with racist usage.

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