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Tudesco|tʊˈdɛskəʊ|
Also Tedesco. Fem. Tudesca.
[a. Ladino, = Sp., Pg. tudesco German.]
A colloq. term among Sephardic Jews for an Ashkenazic Jew.
1897I. Zangwill King of Schnorrers i. 12 You are a Tedesco. Ibid. v. 116 A Sephardi marry a Tedesco! Shameful. 1932C. Roth Hist. of Marranos viii. 234 They accentuated the superficial differences..between them and the tudescos, from Germany and Poland, or even the italianos and berberiscos whose antecedents were nearer to their own. Ibid. xii. 316 Jacob Israel Bernal..desired to marry a tudesca—a member of the despised German and Polish community. 1949Spectator 4 Nov. 595/1 Not so long ago English Sephardic families used to sit in mourning if one of their members married, not a Goy (or non-Jew), but a Tedesco (or Ashkenazi Jew). 1964M. Wohlgelernter Israel Zangwill ii. vi. 85 The intended union of Menasseh's daughter with a Polish Jew excites..horror in..the Mahamad. A Tedesco did not pronounce Hebrew as they did, hence he was inferior. |