"the crowd of little Jews" (толпе еврейчиков)

A period ethnic slur naming Jewish people with the dismissive diminutive "еврейчиков" (literally "little Jews"), appearing in Chekhov's own dismissive aside blaming the 1890 Moscow student unrest partly on "the crowd of little Jews and... that sex [women]" seeking university admission (\S14, immediately following his own copied-out transcription of the students' actual eight-point proclamation, whose fourth demand -- admission of Jews to the universities "without any restrictions whatsoever" -- is rendered plainly and without pejorative charge, see \S9). This is Chekhov's own casually contemptuous editorializing about the unrest's supposed causes, not reported speech, and sits immediately alongside an equally dismissive remark about women ("that sex") in the same sentence. Translated at full force as "little Jews" rather than neutralized to "Jews," per the corpus's no-softening policy for terms whose belittling register is diagnostic of the speaker's attitude and not incidental -- compare ("цветные еврейчики," a related but textually distinct occurrence of the same diminutive) and. Presented factually as documented period prejudice in Chekhov's own private correspondence, not endorsed.