Grew up knowing that you always tried to "Jew" someone down when you were buying a car or anything like that. I was an adult before I realized the word originated with the Jewish people and was slang. It was just a common everyday word.

Grew up in a small town in Eastern NC. We had no faiths other than Methodist and Baptist. ,no Catholic, Jews, or any Protestant faith except Baptist and Methodist.

I was familiar with the term “Jew”. It was a verb, not a noun.

I was being tongue-in-cheek. Getting "gypped" would be a racial slur against the gypsies.

OK I see where you went there,
Gypped by a Jew or Jewed by a Gyp,lol.

I'm pretty sure I am the only Jewish trapper on the planet. My family can't quite figure out why I love trapping, hunting , guns and conservatives.. lol

We had one in our community. He bought and ran the local BBQ joint, pork BBQ. And it was great BBQ no less.

The across the street neighbor was Catholic, she was first generation Czech. Two of her sons and a couple grandchildren lived next to her all good baptists as were all of those generations. Many who were deacons at the church I grew up in.

Gyp more often meant a young female hound, cur or feist. B itch was the word for one that had produced a litter but wasn't said in polite company.

Buddy tried to up on fur to Sy Gorwitz he replies “first of all, I don’t like your expression and secondly I offered you a fair price!” That was a humbling experience

Quite a bit of Winnipeg's fur trade was worked by the Jewish people during the hay day. Canada had many immigration policies going against them after the 1930 depression. The Russian revolution went against many of them trying to get out of the countries at the time.
Ever wonder why there are extra long sleeved shirts......those were made to hide the German tattoos with their numbers, those were the survivors of the camps.
The female owning stuff ie buildings is why many bankruptcies there is still brick and mortar left after the lawyers take what-ever.

Make's sense the Jewish people were all about the fur business, they started out making coats out of camel hides, lol.

I liked Roger. Good guy. He liked my cats also. Miss seeing him at our sales.
I have a black cap he donated and I won with orange and yellow flames along both sides from PACIFIC, steel, hides, furs, recycling. Spokane.
Anyone remember Rogers last name?

Yes, they learned well from the Babylonians...

A lot of our furriers are Jewish. The local furriers who made me a number of beautifully crafted garments are Jewish, and their skills are amazing, especially how they can remodel old garments into new things. Here's a nice wild mink hat they made for a friend this winter. Those mink were pretty small, and not the best fur possible (just their minnow trap bycatch). That friend couldn't believe it was the same mink they'd given me to take to the tannery.



Interestingly, many of the younger fur buyers here nowadays are Muslim. The man who currently offers the best prices for marten in Russia is Muslim and openly and blatantly antisemitic according to his posts in the social media. Yet I'm certain that all tails from the marten he buys eventually end up in Israel, to be turned into shtreimels.

I'm pretty sure it was Roger Scheuer. my spellling is probably wrong. Wissmiss will know. She knows everything. Almost.

That is a beautiful hat Tatiana! A lot of talent.

When I started trapping again in the early 80s many of the fur buyers in our area were Jewish. We had very large state association autions and many participated. As stated above the garment and fur industry in New York was the hub of the fur industry in the USA and those businessess were mainly Jewish owned and ran. Yes the may have learned centuries ago how to handle fur or hides but so did not many other ethnic groups. Many natons did not allow Jews to own property and thus the became merchants and financial business owners.

Bryce

Yes it was. I worked for Roger for two years in the fur room and worked in the hide room and scrap in the off season.

There had been a history of land always being taken from the Jews.

My grandfather immigrated to the US The Germans took his grandparents property the Russians took his parents property

One of my trapping mentors was jewish , He has passed on a few years back, We took our furs one year to an auction and he was ahead of my lot ,When he got his bid slips he turned to me and my brother and said Im not selling at this price, load my furs up. So my brother and I loaded the truck back up with his furs and ours . We traveled back home about a 3 hour drive one way. He was tight with his money and knew his fur grades.

Thanks for showing items from abroad. Those small mink have some of the best ratio of under fur /guard hair.( examples here are Maine maritime coastals and Hudson bay lowland mink)
With 90% of Turkey being Muslim and all the tanneries being there now having moved from Greece a few years ago....now shocking news they are demanding marten