[Heb-NACO] הגדה לפרחות

[Zachary M Baker]

Yes, this echoes the Polish epithet 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"): 
http://yiddishsong.wordpress.com/2010/05/ 


So is it the same as the Yiddish-Israeli derogatory term for Oriental Jews: Frenk-Parekh? 


Yossi 
Zachary 

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