Jewry
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English Jewery, from Old French juerie. By surface analysis, Jew + -ry.
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Noun edit
Jewry (countable and uncountable, plural Jewries)
- Jewish people considered collectively. [from 14th c.]
- Hitler attempted to murder all of European Jewry.
- 1941, Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism[1], 3rd revised edition, published 1995, page 1:
- Darkly it [the Kabbalah] stood in their [Samuel David Luzzatto, Moritz Steinschneide, etc.] path, the ally of forces and tendencies in whose rejection pride was taken by a Jewry which, in Steinschneider’s words, regarded it as its chief task to make a decent exit from the world.
- 1989, Geoffrey Alderman, London Jewry and London Politics, 1889–1986:
- 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ[2]:
- Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.
- (historical) The quarter of a town or city inhabited either partially or exclusively by Jews; historically, its main buildings were the synagogue, the ritual bath or mikve, the kosher-oriented butchery and bakery, etc. [from 17th c.]
- 1973, Eisig Silberschlag, “Notes”, in From Renaissance to Renaissance: Hebrew Literature from 1492-1970[3], New York: Ktav Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 389:
- The Nazis who murdered Katzenelson also burned the entire Jewry of Radoshkowitz—Mane’s birthplace and burialplace in the vicinity of Vilna.
- (obsolete) Judaism. [16th c.]
- (obsolete) The land of the Jews; Judea. [16th–17th c.]
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark:
- And all the londe off iewry, and they of Jerusalem went out unto hym, and were all baptised of hym in the ryver Jordan [...].
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Josephus reporteth, that whilst the Romane warres continued in Jurie, passing by a place where certain Jewes had been crucified three dayes before, he knew thre of his friends amongst them […].
- 1833, “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen”, in W. B. Sandys, editor, Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, page 102:
- In Bethlehem, in Jury / This blessed babe was born
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Translations edit
Jews in general, the Jewish population of a locale
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Jewish quarter
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the land of Jews (obsolete) — see Judea
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Middle English edit
Noun edit
Jewry
- Alternative form of Jewery