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- From: rena@tequila.LANL.GOV (Rena Whiteson)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
- Subject: goy
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 02:28:09 GMT
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- >FYI: In case you're wondering, the word "goy" (pl. "goyim") is
- >not at all derogatory; it is just the Talmudic word for non-Jew.
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- >Andrew Michael Solovay
-
- Actually goy means nation. Goyim means nations. Because of the context
- of much of its usage it has come to mean 'all the other nations'.
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- Rena Whiteson
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- rw@beta.lanl.gov
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