malbushim מלבושים

[Dan Nussbaum]

Recently I viewed the film Defiance. In it the term "malbushim"  מלבושים was used as a term of derision.

I know that it means clothes or suit of clothes in both Hebrew and Judaeo-German. I am not quite sure why it is a term of derision. Is it because people who wore suits look down on laborers and farmer who did not wear suits like the Bielsky brothers?

Daniel Nussbaum II, M.D., FAAP
Retired Developmental Pediatrician
Rochester, New York

Tone can be misinterpreted in email. Please read my words with warmth, kindness, and good intentions.

[Simeon Baumel]

It could be that the 'clothes' are in the sense of a 'stuffed shirt'.

 Or  that you have a simple person who wants to be thought of as important by wearing fine garb. So you have someone who looks important, but really has no content

Shimon Baumel

Achva College

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