BEER Ch. 3 You're Jewish, Right?

[John Bailey]

>>"a truth universally acknowledged"

>>First sentence of Pride and Prejudice...

Not having read Austen for a long time, I kept getting flashes of her
style in BE during the exchanges between Maxine and Heidi, which are
often along the lines of (paraphrasing) "dear, foolish, freckled X,
blah blah blah" and then "naive, tragic Y, blah blah blah" (but
substituting much snarkier and I-love-you-but... adjectives).

But am I misremembering Austen? Is that not her thing? I now feel I'm
substituting consummate NY filmmaker (and Austen devotee) Whit
Stillman's dialogue for Jane's. No time to look it up.

Or maybe it's a Sex and the City reference again and I have repressed it.

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>    "'Got another one for you here, you're Jewish, right?'" (BE, Ch. 3, p. 24)
>
>
> "Kashruth fraud"
>
> Kashrut (also kashruth or kashrus, כַּשְׁרוּת) is the set of Jewish
> dietary laws. Food that may be consumed according to halakha (Jewish
> law) is termed kosher in English, from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of
> the Hebrew term kashér (כָּשֵׁר), meaning "fit" (in this context, fit
> for consumption).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashrut
>
> Historically, the statutes of some states in the USA attempted to
> define kosher, and make it a felony to sell a product which was called
> kosher if, in general, it was not processed in accordance with the
> Jewish religion. However, challenges were made to such laws on the
> basis that they appear to be establishment of a religious practice by
> the states in question, which would constitute a violation of the
> constitutional rule that there should be no law respecting an
> establishment of religion. Although earlier courts upheld some of
> these laws, courts have since determined that the laws would establish
> religious practice, and therefore struck the laws down; opponents of
> this decision had attempted to argue that kashrut was simply a set of
> standards for food preparation, and therefore there would be no
> difference between labelling something as kashrut and labelling it as
> low sodium, high-fiber, pasteurised, calcium-enriched, or contains no
> cholesterol.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_laws_regarding_Kashrut
>
>
> "a goon sqaud of fake mashgichim"
>
> A Mashgiach (Hebrew: משגיח‎, pl. משגיחים, mashgichim, lit.
> "Supervisor") is a Jew who supervises the kashrut status of a kosher
> establishment.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashgiach
>
>
> "jive-ass hechshers"
>
> 4. jive, jiver, jive mother-fucker, jive-ass mother-fucker, jamf (oral
> evidence only for the last three)...jamf is an abbreviation of
> jive-ass mother-fucker and is said to have originated with Charlie
> Parker;
>
> http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/extra/jamf.html
>
> A hechsher (Hebrew: הכשר‎ [ˈheχʃeʁ] "kosher approval"; plural:
> hechsherim) is a Rabbinical Product certification, qualifying items
> (usually foods) that conform to the requirements of Halakha (Jewish
> law).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hechsher
>
>
> "'Try Meyer Lansky—no wait, he's dead.'"
>
> Meyer Lansky (born Meyer Suchowljansky; July 4, 1902 – January 15,
> 1983), known as the "Mob's Accountant", was a major organized crime
> figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was
> instrumental in the development of the "National Crime Syndicate" in
> the United States.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky
> http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_24
>
>
> "shaygetz-dating issues"
>
> Shegetz (שייגעץ or in Hebrew שֵׁיְגֶּץ; alternative Romanizations
> incl. shaygetz, sheigetz, shaigetz, sheygets; plural שגאצים shkotzim,
> shgatzim) is a Yiddish word that has entered English to refer to a
> non-Jewish boy or young man. Although shegetz, like its feminine
> counterpart shiksa, comes from the Hebrew sheketz ("detestable,"
> "abomination", "loathed", "blemish") and literally translates as
> "rascal", "scoundrel" or "varmint", - its pejorative connotations
> range from negligible to severe, depending on the context.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shegetz
>
>
> "a truth universally acknowledged"
>
> First sentence of Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally
> acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must
> be in want of a wife."
>
> http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/ppv1n01.html
> http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_24
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