Shikseh

Especially odd if that were the case is his relationship with Courtney Starsmore, who, much as I love her, is still a shikseh. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One on discovering his son was sleeping with a shikseh. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

What, with the reflection of some gullible shikseh already burned in? ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

Of course you want to have your son sectioned when he falls in love for the second time with the same shikseh. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

A shikseh answers to some capacity for lowness in yourself. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

And could it really have been my buried wish to have her get it on with me and Errol both—a stubby shikseh passed like a roach from Jewish hand to Jewish hand? ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

She was a perfect example of the self-hating shikseh. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

Not the frivolous Selick Washinsky “vay iz mir my son has run off with a shikseh” sort of stroke—the Jewish double-stroke in which one seizure cancels out another—but the full neurological catastrophe, leaving him incapable of doing anything but smile. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

Oy gevalt, a gorgeous little shikseh with hand-grenade breasts and features so diminutive and precise she looked as though a fairy god had pinched them out of plasticine. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

But I accept that even when the charge is enticement, the enticed party, like the insulted shikseh, is free to get up and walk into another room. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

What, even my entirely irreligious God-hating top-to-bottom secularized new-Jew-seeking dad who would have doubled my pocket money had I told him I was going out with shikseh triplets? ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

There is a potency in the idea of the shikseh that is hard to throw off, no matter however many of them you fall in love with. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

When Tsedraiter Ike cautioned me against marrying a shikseh, any shikseh, because she was certain one day to call me dirty Jew, he was acknowledging the authority vested in both words. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

Why did you have to take a shikseh name like Portman? ❋ Douglas Hoffman (2005)

“Because I lose my temper when I’m not married to a shikseh.” ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

From shikseh to shikseh was the overarching logic, of course—it was the individual moves I hadn’t followed. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

My Schicksal—meaning fate or destiny—only this one wasn’t a shikseh. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

“Jealous because he didn’t have a little shikseh of his own?” ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

“And did the doctors explain that falling in love with a shikseh isn’t certifiable?” ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

"[Daniel], [I don't want to] [hear] from that shikseh." ❋ Marquito Maia (2007)