yehoud

Updated: August 3, 2026

Here a man wrote in my journal the names of abuse applied to the lazy, lagging camels, for his own especial amusement; viz., "Ya kafer, Ya kelb, Ya Yehoud, 'Oh thou infidel! 'Oh thou dog! 'Oh thou Jew!" In a quarrel, the Arabs transfer them complacently to one another, with sundry additions and oaths, too broad for ears polite. 21st.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846