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/ˈʃvɑɹtsə/ · noun
(Jewish, US, now offensive, ethnic slur) A person of sub-Saharan African descent; a black person..
1975, Robert Greenfield, The Spiritual Supermarket, New York: Saturday Review Press / E. P. Dutton & Co., p. 6, From the rabbi to the “shvartze,” the black man who turned on the synagogue’s lights on Saturdays, he was liked.
1988, Leon Uris, Mitla Pass, New York: Doubleday, Part 3, “Baltimore 1902-1913,” p. 270, […] they were able to afford a full-time shvartze to keep the house.
[…] she irons better even than the schvartze,
Jesse Jackson cracks a joke about Hymietown and everybody has a fit, but I’ve heard you call them shvartzes, and I’ll bet had your daughter married one you wouldn’t have cracked open a bottle of champagne.
‘We don’t have enough problems among the Jews, he has to go take on the problems of the shvartze?’
2012, Steve Stern, “The Tale of a Kite” in The Book of Mischief, Minneapolis: Graywolf Fress, p. 9, Ordinarily Boss Crump and his entourage […] like to tour the individual shops, receiving the tributes his shvartze valet shleps out to a waiting limousine.
There was a shvartze wedding next door and something else too . . . some anniversary party.
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Shvartze means (Jewish, US, now offensive, ethnic slur) A person of sub-Saharan African descent; a black person..
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1975, Robert Greenfield, The Spiritual Supermarket, New York: Saturday Review Press / E. P. Dutton & Co., p. 6, From the rabbi to the “shvartze,” the black man who turned on the synagogue’s lights on Saturdays, he was liked.
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