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Ashkenazic
Adjectival form for 'Ashkenazim', "The name given to the group of Jews who were originally from Germany and France, and their descendants" (JPS)
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Borscht Belt
region in the Catskill Mountains with many summer resorts frequented by Jews, especially in the mid twentieth century
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boychick
"A young boy...equivalent of the American expression 'buddy'" (JPS)
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Diaspora
"The term for Jewish communities and their residents who live outside of the State of Israel" (JPS).
The extensive settlement of Jews outside the land of Israel after the Babylonian Exile in 586 BCE.
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kike
A derogatory slur for a Jewish person.
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no-goodnik
bad person, scoundrel (sometimes humorous or affectionate)
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schmo
a fool; a jerk
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Sephardic
Jews whose ancestors came from the Iberian Peninsula before the Jewish expulsion
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