Vulgar words in Jewish Literature and Other Essays (Page 1)

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ass x 2
buffoon x 2
            

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Maimonides, in his supposed reply to the Prince, played upon the word _Chamor_, the Hebrew word for _ass_, the name of a Hivite prince mentioned in the Bible: "High rank, I wot, we proudly claim When sprung from noble ancestor; Henceforth my mule a _prince_ I'll name Since once a prince was called _Chamor_."

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Another time a buffoon appears on the stage with head shaved close.

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[86] Many a change of season will pass over this generation, and leave it unchanged: internally ruptured; rushing into the arms of Christianity, the religion of expediency; without stamina and without principle; one section thrust aside by Europe, and vegetating in filth with longing eyes directed towards the Messiah's ass or other member of the long-eared fraternity; the other occupied with fingering state securities and the pages of a cyclopædia, and constantly oscillating between wealth and bankruptcy, oppression and tolerance.

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At the same time he says in his journal, published posthumously: "Although a buffoon, Heine has genius, and the distinguishing mark of genius, ingenuousness.

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