<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Yes, this echoes the Polish epithet <span>Żyd-parch ("scabby Jew"). And the world's leading expert on that charming shtetl hazing ritual to which I referred in my previous post is the folklorist Itzik Gottesman, now an editor of the Yiddish Forverts. Here is a link to his most recent writing on the subject (using the spelling "parekh"):<br>http://yiddishsong.wordpress.com/2010/05/<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px;">So is it the same as the Yiddish-Israeli derogatory term for Oriental Jews: Frenk-Parekh?
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