Hymietown

English Etymology From en Hymie town, in reference to the city's large Jewish population. Proper noun en derogatory en @derogatory name for:New York City major city s/New York c/USA. en 1988-03-11 A 34 Don Wycliff The Editorial Notebook; The New Jesse Jackson w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/11/opinion/the-editorial-notebook-the-new-jesse-jackson.html In campaign speeches, he has called on interest groups that seem to have nothing in common to find common ground. He has been guarded in talking to the press - no doubt remembering the grief that the Hymietown remark brought him during the 1984 campaign. https://web.archive.org/web/20231130114507/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/11/opinion/the-editorial-notebook-the-new-jesse-jackson.html en Antisemitism