So I was in my motel room in Amsterdam, Watching Forest Gump with Dutch subtitles... ....and I swear... when someone called Forest Gump a "loser," the word that popped up in the subtitle was........... "shlemiel." Yes........due to the large Jewish presence here since the 1400s.......Yiddish words are part of Dutch. Yesterday I saw a restaurant sign saying "restaurant Schimuck." I saw a boat with a star of David on it and asked the guy if they were Jewish..... He said no.... read more