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Quotation: The father’s self-representation as Hocker confirms the son’s characterization of him, in which an authorial Roth reaches for a recognizable, if not entirely appealing, type glossed for the goyim. The writer supplies the dictionary entry in parenthesis: “Hock: a Yiddishism that in this context means to badger, to bludgeon, to hammer with warnings and edicts and pleas—in short, to drill a hole in somebody’s head with words.”
Author:
Nancy K. Miller
Date of publication:
Oct. 1, 1996
Page number:
32
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Original date published:
Mar. 1, 2000
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