Jewry

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Jewish people considered collectively.

   • Hitler attempted to murder all of European Jewry.
2. 2

   The quarter of a town or city inhabited either partially or exclusively by Jews

   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.

   • The Nazis who murdered Katzenelson also burned the entire Jewry of Radoshkowitz—Mane’s birthplace and burialplace in the vicinity of Vilna.
3. 3

   Judaism.

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   1. 4

      The land of the Jews

      The land of the Jews; Judea.

      • And all the londe off iewry, and they of Jerusalem went out unto hym, and were all baptised of hym in the ryver Jordan [...].
      • 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[…].
      • In Bethlehem, in Jury / This blessed babe was born

The neighborhood

• synonymJewdom
• synonymB'nei Yisrael
• synonymKlal Yisrael
• neighborJew
• neighborghetto
• neighborJudaism
• neighborKlal Yisrael
• neighborEdom
• neighborHindudom
• neighborChristendom
• neighborDar al-Islam
• neighborIslamosphere
• neighborעם ישראל