Jewry

Jewry

English

Etymology

From Middle English Jewery, from Old French juerie. Synchronically analyzable as Jew +‎ -ry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːɹi/

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• Rhymes: -uːɹi

Noun

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, 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:

     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.]
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, 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 946730821:

     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, W. B. Sandys (ed.), "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" in Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, p. 102.

     In Bethlehem, in Jury / This blessed babe was born

Synonyms

• Jewdom

Translations

Jews in general, the Jewish population of a locale

Aghwan: 𐕛𐔰𐕖𐔰𐕙𐕒𐕡𐕎 (vačarun) Albanian: çifutëri (sq) f Armenian: հրեություն (hy) (hreutʿyun) Belarusian: яўрэ́йства n (jaŭréjstva), габрэ́йства n (habréjstva) Bulgarian: еврейство n (evrejstvo) Catalan: jueria f Chinese: Mandarin: 猶太民族／犹太民族 (yóutài mínzú) Czech: židovstvo (cs) n, Židovstvo n Esperanto: judaro Estonian: juudid pl Finnish: juutalaiset (fi) pl French: judéité (fr) f, judaïté (fr) f, judeïté f, judaïcité (fr) f, juiverie (fr) f German: Judentum (de) n; Judenheit (de) f Hebrew: עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל‎ m (Am Yisrael) Hungarian: zsidóság (hu) Italian: giudecca f Japanese: ユダヤ民族 (ユダヤみんぞく, yudaya minzoku) Lithuanian: žydija f (usually implies negative connotation) Middle English: Jewery Polish: żydostwo (pl) n Portuguese: judiaria (pt) f Russian: евре́йство (ru) n (jevréjstvo), евре́и (ru) m pl (jevréi) Sicilian: judeca f Spanish: pueblo judío m, judería (es) f Ukrainian: євре́йство n (jevréjstvo), євре́ї m pl (jevréji) Yiddish: ייִדנטום‎ n (yidntum)

the land of Jews (obsolete) — see Judea

See also

• Jew
• ghetto
• Judaism

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Middle English

Noun

Jewry

1. Alternative form of Jewery