[Heb-NACO] הגדה לפרחות

[Zachary M Baker]

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. (Polish: parch - commonly employed as an antisemitic epithet directed at Jews.)

Zachary

Zachary M. Baker
Stanford University Libraries
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On Mar 23, 2011, at 11:09 AM, "Galron, Joseph" <galron.1 at osu.edu> wrote:

>  To our Yiddish gurus:
> 
> In the הגדה לפרחות that was published in 1911 and re-published by Robinson in 1976, it says in the introduction on page 3:
> 
> די הגדה לפאַרכעס ווערד געזאָגט געוועהליך בצבור, אלע פאַרכעס צוזאַמען.
> 
> I tried to find the meaning of פאַרכעס (Farkhes), but no much luck.
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Yossi
> 
> 
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