We see later that it contributes to the creation of the slur Zid. He suggests that Jewish immigrants, not knowing the Latin alphabet, signed their entry forms with a circle rather than the customary X, which signified Christianity.
On this theory, Ellis Island immigration inspectors began calling such people kikels, and the term shortened as time passed.
Kaim Jew was recorded in midth-century German cant. Smouch : According to Worldwide Words, when tea first arrived in Britain from China in the s, it was extremely expensive and smuggling it became common. Its high price also inspired counterfeits, which were sold to dealers under the slang name of smouch. The practice became so commonplace that one estimate rounds 3 million pounds of smouch being made a year.
Somewhat later it became an offensive slang for a Jewish person, perhaps because of harmful stereotypes around conmen.
The word later transformed into a verb in the U. Supposedly, some persecutors heard this curse so many times that they shortened it to the last two syllables. Today, a more commonly agreed upon theory states the word comes from the Yiddish word for beautiful; sheyn. Ioffe, who is Jewish, was barraged with death threats and crank callers, one of whom played recorded speeches of Hitler on her phone line , another who told her that her face would look good on a lampshade.
Melania Trump later said that while her "fans maybe went too far," Ioffe had "provoked them. Social media-borne Holocaust imagery has been directed at countless journalists, among them Huffington Post Senior Polling Editor Natalie Jackson, pictured on Twitter locked into a gas chamber, with a beaming Donald Trump, dressed as a Nazi officer, ready to push a green button marked "GAS.
You will be held down and given a bath," the tweet reads. For many journalists, especially millennials, the barrage of pro-Trump, alt-right harassment, threats, and mass trolling, has been their first brush with anti-Semitism. The quote is from an extraordinary report this week by Politico's Ben Wofford.
In an allusion to the large numbers of Jewish organizations who have refrained from challenging Trump on the anti-Semitism issue, Wofford notes that among Jews the pro-Trump outrages of the alt-right have "heightened a divide between young and old, left and right: Progressive young Jews learning to form the words 'anti-Semitism,' often for the first time — even while they take umbrage at their right-leaning scolds who, now into October, have kept up a deafening silence on the topic of Trump.
Through it all, Jew-hating Trump supporters have reserved some of the most toxic of their venom for staunch Republicans and conservatives who happen to be Jewish.
They've even coined an obscenity just for them: Kikeservatives. Trump helped throw the holding tanks of anti-Semitism wide open in July, when he gave national exposure to , and then proceeded to defend , a white supremacist-designed meme in which Hillary Clinton appears flanked by a red six-pointed star on a background of a pile of hundred-dollar bills. Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center was quoted at the time as saying that Trump's comments, even if unintended, had legitimized the kind of bigotry represented by the likes of David Duke, whom the Anti-Defamation League has called "perhaps America's most well-known racist and anti-Semite.
For alt-right figures like Andrew Anglin, however, that is exactly what America is all about. In a piece set under a winking image of a youngish Adolf Hitler, Anglin wrote of Trump that "the evangelicals will listen to his pro-Israel statements, while we will listen to his signals. Log in Sign Up. Save Word.
Definition of kike. First Known Use of kike , in the meaning defined above. History and Etymology for kike origin unknown. Learn More About kike. Time Traveler for kike The first known use of kike was in See more words from the same year.
He had no linguistic background and sometimes allowed suspicious ideas to run away with him does anyone still use run away in this sense? His etymology of Kike hardly merits the briefest mention, but his intuition did not betray him. In a way, Kike indeed belongs with keek and kook. Too bad this linguistic perfection serves such an ugly cause.
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Or subscribe to articles in the subject area by email or RSS. March Book World 6. Of uncertain relevance: June The Era 9. They are Russian jews—true! But who are you? One early reason was that a tenure was used by German Jews, who had digested into US culture, to report some-more new Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.
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