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Jewry

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Etymology

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From Middle English Jewery, from Old French juerie. By surface analysis, Jew +‎ -ry.

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Jewry (countable and uncountable, plural Jewries)

  1. 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.
  2. (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.]
  3. (obsolete) Judaism. [16th c.]
  4. (obsolete) The land of the Jews; Judea. [16th–17th c.]

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Middle English

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Jewry

  1. Alternative form of Jewery
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