From: JNugent73@mail.com 
  
 On 10/08/2025 04:28 PM, Andy Walker wrote: 
  
 > 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.] 
  
 She may or may not have realised the derivation of the term; it isn't 
 all that important because it's simply anecdotal. 
  
 But plenty of others just didn't see anything wrong with being insulting 
 or dismissive to Jewish people any more than they saw anything wrong 
 with behaving in the same way towards non-white people. It was ingrained 
 over generations, if not centuries. Perhaps they even thought that 
 Jewish people sort of unconsciously agreed with their being insulted. 
  
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