What does Schwartza mean?
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From Urban Dictionary: Yiddish or German term meaning "black person".
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I think the word is used in German actually, which is where the Yiddish word came from. People who are Yiddish speakers, who have that word in their language, meaning a black person, use it all the time.
For most Yiddish speaking people, "Shvartzer" means a black man and the terminology was used predominately in a non derogatory way unless the rest of the sentence was also demeaning.
Many Jewish people have the last name Schwartz, which means black. Some non-Jews have it too... after all, Schwartza shares the same root as Schwartze.
The other choices in Yiddish for a black person are:
Tinkile - meaning "Dark one" or "Darkie"
Fekete - The Hungarian equivalent of the "N" word
Shuchoir - Just the Hebrew word for black, sometimes used derogatorily.
Maybe this question should be asked of Norman Schwarzkopf or Arnold Schwarzenegger?
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A Yiddish term that American Jews use to call a black person a "nigger" without them knowing. It is extremely derogatory
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I agree with @mattman4 that answers are better when not just copied/pasted. However, there isn't really a contradiction between the two definitions here. The first is the denotation which is not hateful, and the second is the word's use as slang in a hateful way.
mattman, the Urban dictionary is misleading, but not precisely wrong. In German and Yiddish there is only the one word. It literally means black. Black coffee, black paint, black person, black market. If you want to insult a black person you call them black, if you want to complement a black person you still call them black. Schwartz is all they have. (the different endings are like most German words for gender and grammar). It's also a common name in Germany (it's used for swarthy and also for black haired).
Try not to just copy a source. As you can see,there is a large contradiction between the two definitions.
On UrbanDictionary, these are two different definitions by two different users, not just different denotations. One user said the word itself isn't hurtful, while the other said it is. The definitions don't leave variability for each other, but rather explicitly say if the term is offensive or not.
I agree that Urban Dictionary is a questionable source...do you have a source for your answer that is more reliable?
I do not use the Urban Dictionary which is highly unreliable.
According to the online Yiddish dictionary, Schwartza is usually spelled shvartser and means "a black man".
http://www.yiddishdictionaryonline.com/