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What is goyishness?Hebrew/Yiddish term for someone/thing which is not Jewish. "Descendants of this immigrant woman, you do not grow up in America, you and your children and their children with the goyish names. You live in America. No such place exists. Your clay is the clay of some Litvak shtetl, your air the air of the steppes--because she carried the old world on her back across the ocean, in a boat, and she put it down on Grand Concourse Avenue, or in Flatbush, and she worked that earth into your bones, and you pass it to your children, this ancient, ancient culture and home." --Angels In America, Tony Kushner. goyishness - videoGoyishness - what is it?Pulled from Yiddish, denoting a 'goyish' person, a person acting very non-Jewish, exuding non-Jewish energy. "Oy, Shloime, look at that Goyisher in the kosher wine aisle... what's he doing here?" What does "goyishness" mean?Hebrew/Yiddish term for someone/thing which is not Jewish. (See: goyish, goyische.) "Descendants of this immigrant woman, you do not grow up in America, you and your children and their children with the goyishe names. You live in America. No such place exists. Your clay is the clay of some Litvak shtetl, your air the air of the steppes--because she carried the old world on her back across the ocean, in a boat, and she put it down on Grand Concourse Avenue, or in Flatbush, and she worked that earth into your bones, and you pass it to your children, this ancient, ancient culture and home." --Angels In America, Tony Kushner. Goyishness - what does it mean?1. Adjective, referring to something or someone who is not Jewish. Derived from "goy" - a Hebrew word used in the Jewish Scriptures (a.k.a. the Old Testament). The word means "nation," and is always used within these scriptures to refer to the nations of the world. Significantly, within the Old Testament, Judah (the Jewish nation) itself is called a "goy." 1. "Gather together, gather together, O shameful goy" - Zephaniah 2:1 (Referring to the Jewish nation) Goyishness - meaningthe state of not having it (in a cultural sense), whatever you take it to be. The goyishness of the two-party state |
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