Fiddler on the Roof

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   jilllessa Teacher
   High School - 10th Grade

   Usually the name of someone who is not a Jew in Yiddish is a goy, or in plural, goyim.  The more common word in English for a non-Jew is a gentile.

    

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   Posted by jilllessa on Saturday November 24, 2007 at 6:15 PM
   
   

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   blazedale

   The only answer I can find definitively is in the film version script, which uses the word gentile to refer to non-Jews. I don't have the text of the play in front of me, though. 

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   http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/f/fiddler-on-t...

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   Posted by blazedale on Saturday November 24, 2007 at 10:59 PM
   
   

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