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The word, Betzemer, developed in the Harlem area of New York in the early 1900's. Irish Catholic and Jewish neighborhoods were contiguous. There was not a lot of love lost between the two ethnic groups.

The Jews came up with this derogatory name for their Irish neighbors, "Betzemer"; etiology unknown.

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