[ANON POST] Anti-Semitic Slurs in Polish

[orange_fell]

My story is set in post-World War II Poland circa 1946-8, and I need some Polish-language slurs on Jewish people, some idea of how serious they are (in relation to one another and/or to English slurs; obviously slurs in general are a very serious thing), and their particular meanings and connotations

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[bwinter]

It's really not a very well defined subject, and some googling hasn't let me discover any compiled list - you'd probably need a scholarly book. Anti-semites could/can say various things, and most of them were general insults (on stuff like smell, conspiracies, the really paranoid blood-related nonsense etc). Some general insulting ways of saying "Jew" would be "żydek" (literally little Jew) or "parch" - both now regarded like the N-word in the US.

[yountion]

[bwinter]

OP here. I've realized since I started researching this that it doesn't work quite the same way in Polish as in English. But you've helped me get a better feel for it, so thanks!