Word: goy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think I'll go out and get plastered, then I won't be so upset by articles like "Jews & Alcohol" [March 17]. Yale's Professor Charles Snyder certainly makes us sound like a self-satisfied, overfed bunch of stinkers. And that song, Shikker Iz a Goy! I'm from an Orthodox Jewish background, and I have never heard of it. The Yale researchers said many could recall it; they must have been oldtimers...
...such translations of the lively ditty Shikker Iz a Goy that send Jews like me reeling to the refrigerator for a glass of Manischewitz...
Shikker Iz a Goy. The Yale researchers found many a Jew who stoutly denied having been brought up to believe that Jews are more temperate than Gentiles. Yet many could be prompted into remembering the old Yiddish song, Shikker Iz a Goy (Drunken Is a Gentile). Translation...
...came home and told his young Russian wife that the Messiah had come and that his name was Jesus. She was horrified, contemplated divorce. "Next day, after his father came home from the synagogue," says she. "I told him his son had become a goy. 'Don't breathe a word about it.' he said. He thought I'd gone crazy...