From: anw@cuboid.co.uk 
  
 On 10/08/2025 11:31, JNugent wrote: 
 [...] 
 > But even apart from that sort of semi-organised stuff, there was> still a 
 recognisable residual anti-Jewish attitude in Britain among 
 > the older generations, though it was certainly fading. It was normal 
 > to hear (overhear) the term "Jewboy" from people you might have 
 > thought more measured than that. 
  
  An elderly neighbour was wont, in my childhood, to use the 
 term with no pro- or anti-Jewish significance whatsoever.  Any cute 
 baby was "Oh, what a pretty jewboy!", with the same sort of meaning 
 as "little angel" or "cherub".  I don't know how common that usage 
 was, but I'm tolerably sure that she would have been horrified to be 
 told "You can't say that!", as if she had used a swear-word.  [She 
 would have known about the Holocaust, but would simply not have 
 associated "jewboy" with Jewishness.] 
  
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