Boodishnick

[Olga Meerson]

Apparently a corrupted version of budoshnik/ budochnik--a police guard, someone who  stands in a booth -- or, less likely and more rarely, a peddler. Most likely, the pogrom people have managed to confuse a policeman with a Jew, and now the Jews are being blamed! 
o.m.


----- Original Message -----
From: Neil Bermel <n.bermel at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
Date: Friday, November 30, 2007 4:36 am
Subject: [SEELANGS] Boodishnick

> Dear all,
> 
> Here's one of those friend-of-a-friend-asked-me queries. I've 
> checked a 
> number of obvious sources to which I have access, including Russian 
> print and online dictionaries and Yiddish and Ukrainian online 
> dictionaries and googling the word in various spellings (only one 
> hit...), but no luck. I'm not even sure if the word referred to is 
> best 
> treated as Russian (seems unlikely), Ukrainian, Yiddish....
> 
> "A word cropped up in a piece of fiction I’ve got to annotate for a 
> book 
> proposal. The word is ‘boodishnick’, which is how it’s spelt in the 
> fiction, but I’m not sure whether it’s correctly spelled. The 
> context is 
> a pogrom in Odessa during the 1880s, and the word is used by one of 
> the 
> mob, who shouts ‘Who murdered the boodishnick?’ Could you help with 
> a 
> possible translation?"
> 
> Any advice for this person will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Neil
> 
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