<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>That's "parkh" - an eczema-like scalp condition. In some shtetlekh there was a hazing ritual on Shabat ha-gadol directed at unfortunate townspeople with this condition. (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Polish: parch - commonly employed as an antisemitic epithet directed at Jews.)</span><br><br><div>Zachary</div><div><br></div><div>Zachary M. Baker</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Stanford University Libraries</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Stanford, CA 94305-6004</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="mailto:zbaker@Stanford.edu">zbaker@Stanford.edu</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Sent from my iPhone</span></div></div><div><br>On Mar 23, 2011, at 11:09 AM, "Galron, Joseph" <<a href="mailto:galron.1@osu.edu">galron.1@osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div style="">In the הגדה לפרחות that was published in 1911 and re-published by Robinson in 1976, it says in the introduction on page 3:</div>
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<div style="">די הגדה לפאַרכעס ווערד געזאָגט געוועהליך בצבור, אלע פאַרכעס צוזאַמען.</div>
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<div style="">I tried to find the meaning of פאַרכעס (Farkhes), but no much luck.</div>
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<div style="">Any advice?</div>
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<div style="">Yossi</div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial; font-size:small">Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger<br>
Head, Hebraica & Jewish Studies Library<br>
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The Ohio State University Libraries <br>
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E-Mail: <a href="mailto:galron.1@osu.edu" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:galron.1@osu.edu">galron.1@osu.edu</a></a> or <a href="mailto:jgalron@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:jgalron@gmail.com">jgalron@gmail.com</a></a><br>
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Lexicon of Modern Hebrew Literature:<br>
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