shirker: huh?

[Jonathan Lighter]

1998 Tony Horwitz _Confederates in the Attic_ (N.Y.: Random House) 1 Isaac Moses Perski fled Czarist Russia as a teenaged draft-dodger--in Yiddish, a _shirker_.

Should that be "in English" ?

JL


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