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goyish
[ goi-ish ]
adjective
- being, pertaining to, or characteristic of a goy or goys:
explaining Passover to my goyish boss;
a goyish version of chicken soup.
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Postwar Hollywood tackled the issue of antisemitism 鈥 from a goyish viewpoint 鈥 in films like 鈥淕entleman鈥檚 Agreement,鈥 in which Gregory Peck played a journalist posing as a Jew to root out bigotry.
In my Monday column about 92-year-old Gerry Steinkeller鈥檚 much-delayed bar mitzvah, I evidenced an imperfect, goyish notion of Judaism.
He was also successful as a breeder of Arabian horses 鈥 something as goyish as you could get, and indeed Nichols felt bad about having neglected his Jewishness.
This week鈥檚 actual guest star is Elayne Boosler, and for those too goyish to know who that is, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend provides a handy explainer: 鈥淵ou鈥檝e got your Totie Fields, your Joan Rivers, your Fran Drescher, and then you got your Elayne Boosler,鈥 Naomi tells Valencia of the comedian, who is allegedly a childhood friend she met at the affluent 鈥淐amp Kavetcha.鈥
It terms of specificity, it鈥檚 hard to beat 鈥淚f you鈥檙e honored for your mitzvahs/ Call a Camp Kavetcha sister/ If she鈥檚 famous and she鈥檚 distant/ Get in touch with her assistant/ If you still can鈥檛 find her/ Have your daughter鈥檚 goyish friend remind her.鈥
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