jewry
IPA: dʒˈuri
Root Word: Jewry
noun
- Jewish people considered collectively.
- (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.
- (obsolete) Judaism.
- (obsolete) The land of the Jews; Judea.
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Examples of "jewry" in Sentences
- Definitely, the geographic balance of jewry will be altered in the forthcoming future.
- These women are not even members of the othodox jewry, if they would be they would no better than emulating men in worship.
- From this camp the vast majority of the dutch jewry were directly transported to their death in the deathcamps of Sobibor and Auschwitz.
- Also, where were these protesters when pro-Hamas groups were marching through London, demanding the extermination of international jewry?
- Future of jewry will be either in Israel if we militarily engage Iran sooner or later or/and in some countries such as USA, Canada (except Quebec) or Australia
- Lou · January 20th, 2004 at 2:07 am lou — you are incorrect — there is a divergence. jewry is splitting towards the left and the right, and that rift can be seen most clearly among class-lines.
- What exascerbates them is the undo amount of influence that rightwing pro Israel lobbies like AIPAC and neocons exert over american foreign policy and the fact that the state of Israel from its outset exists primarily for the world's jewry.
- December 5, 2008 at 1: 19 pm this is the exact reason the israeli government uses ethiopians as border guards. they have no attachment to any jewry {except their own} so they do what they are told without any emotional involvement. will the real jew please stand up!
- However, in the US, among a significant but influential section of jewish jewry and a large faction of christian fundamentalism, the idea of maintaining a jewish state despite the presence of a pre-established indigenous population comes off not only as right, but a divine/ethnic duty.
- Passover is about the deliveration of jews from persecution for the last 5000 years - from the hands of egyptians, from the hands of greeks romans babylonians, the persecution in spain in th 1500's, the holocaust and lately the exit of russian jewry who were practically jailed in the USSR.
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