Oleg Zabluda's blog
Sunday, November 18, 2018
 
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The word kike was born on Ellis Island when there were Jewish migrants who were also illiterate (or could not use Latin alphabet letters). When asked to sign the entry-forms with the customary "X", the Jewish immigrants would refuse, because they associated an X with the cross of Christianity [OZ:St. Andrew's Cross?]. Instead, they drew a circle as the signature on the entry-forms. The Yiddish word for "circle" is kikel, and for "little circle", kikeleh. Before long the immigration inspectors were calling anyone who signed with an "O" in place of an "X" a kikel or kikeleh or kikee or, finally and succinctly, kike.
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it was used primarily by Jewish-Americans to put down Jewish immigrants. [...] to refer contemptuously to other (Eastern) Jews
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kike

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