Tudescon.
/tʊˈdɛskəʊ/ A colloquial term among Sephardic Jews for an Ashkenazic Jew.
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Ashkenazim1839
Tudesco1897
the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > of specific area
the Dispersion1382
Oriental Jew1659
diaspora1694
Polack1834
Ashkenazim1839
Hebraist1892
Litvak1892
Peruvian Jew1897
Tudesco1897
halutzim1921
Yemenite1926
Ostjuden1934
Sabra1945
Yekke1950
refusenik1973
1897 I. Zangwill King of Schnorrers i. 12 You are a Tedesco.
1897 I. Zangwill King of Schnorrers v. 116 A Sephardi marry a Tedesco! Shameful.
1932 C. Roth Hist. 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.
1932 C. Roth Hist. Marranos xii. 316 Jacob Israel Bernal..desired to marry a tudesca—a member of the despised German and Polish community.
1949 Spectator 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).
1964 M. 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.
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