Jewry
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdʒuːɹi/
Jewry (plural Jewries)
- The Jewish population of the world collectively; the Jewish population of a locale. [from 14th c.]
- Hitler attempted to murder all of European Jewry.
- 1989, Geoffrey Alderman, London Jewry and London Politics, 1889-1986
- (obsolete) The land of the Jews; Judea. [14th-17th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark I:
- 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, printed at London: By 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
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark I:
- French: judéité, judaïté, judeïté, judaïcité, juiverie
- German: Judentum; Judenheit
- Portuguese: judiaria
- Russian: евре́йство
- Spanish: pueblo judío, judería
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