Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given to Jews of the Lithuanian provinces, by their coreligionists of the Polish government. The former, in turn, call the latter Pollacks or Pollackim. See
Pollack . There is a marked difference in the Yiddish jargon as well as in the mannerisms of the two classes.
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