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Jewed-up to within an inch of our lives, off to the bris we went: the former shiksa, the technical half-Jew, the Juban Princeling, and the Cuban-American shaygets.
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Jewed-up to within an inch of our lives, off to the bris we went: the former shiksa, the technical half-Jew, the Juban Princeling, and the Cuban-American shaygets.
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Jewed-up to within an inch of our lives, off to the bris we went: the former shiksa, the technical half-Jew, the Juban Princeling, and the Cuban-American shaygets.
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We did hear the occasional Yiddish word — shiksa, shaygets, tuches, schmuck — from my father and my maternal grandmother, who served bagels and lox, herring, and Muenster cheese to us for Sunday brunch.
Jewish Like Me Collins, Amy Fine 2008
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Look who inseminated our aunty—a shaygets called Skinner from the Humber!
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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The Megiddo Modern Hebrew-English Dictionary, published in Israel, correctly defines shegetz as follows: ‘unclean animal; loathsome creature, abomination colloquial - pronounced shaygets wretch, unruly youngster; Gentile youngster’.
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When did you hear of a shaygets who couldn't throw hard?'
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Jewed-up to within an inch of our lives, off to the bris we went: the former shiksa, the technical half-Jew, the Juban Princeling, and the Cuban-American shaygets.
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The shaygets who would be Jew…it felt self-harming, pathological in the way that explorers who’d lost their way and cheerfully ended up as tribesmen with bones through their noses seemed pathological.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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What Tsedraiter Ike was waiting for was the opportunity to tell Mick Kalooki, in a dark and secluded place—as though that was going to make a difference—that we didn’t want a shaygets in the family, thank you very much, even one who knew a kreplach from a k’nish.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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