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To: driftless
A "momzer"="Bastard", technically refers only to someone whose mother was married, but not to the father of the momzer.

A "schlemiel" might be translated by the English word "prick."

26 posted on 12/23/2002 1:06:44 AM PST by crystalk
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To: crystalk
Be that as it may, I've read a lot of Jewish novelists, and when someone was called a momzer, it was meant in a very derogatory way.
30 posted on 12/23/2002 1:20:52 AM PST by driftless
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