Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Yiddisher n.

a Jew.

1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1881		Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890).
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Jan. 14/3: The Englisher, assisted by a yidisher – we can’t take our affidavit as to the spelling – friend, […] fully arrayed himself for the fray.
1894		Pall Mall Gaz. (London) 5 Jan. 2/2: If the Yiddisher is to be a British citizen, the sooner he changes his giberish prattle for British the better for everybody.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 98: Yiddisher, a Jew.
1901		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 21 Aug. 3/4: A little Sheeny, a well-known Yiddisher, acted as ‘patterer’.
1901		Manchester Courier 25 May 12/6: A certain Jew was being shown over the business premises of a fellow Yiddisher.
1904		Sun. Times (Perth) 10 Jan. 4/7: He caught up with the Yiddisher’s nipper.
1920		Dundee Courier (Scot.) 20 Nov. 6/2: Basham looked quite robust against the almost deadly pakle Yiddisher.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).