Jewry

plural Jewries

1. countableuncountableJewish people considered collectively.First known use 14th c.

   Hitler attempted to murder all of European Jewry.

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   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.

   1941, Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 3rd revised edition, published 1995, page 1

   Although AIPAC is prohibited from contributing directly to political candidates because of its status as a registered lobby, its reputation as the primary voice for American Jewry on Israel affairs has earned it significant clout in Washington.

   2009, Rafael Medoff, Chaim I. Waxman, The A to Z of Zionism, →ISBN, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2023, page 16

   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.

   2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ

   The interview on “The Tucker Carlson Show," in which Mr. [Nick] Fuentes called for an exclusive, “pro-white,” Christian movement and said that “organized Jewry” undermines American cohesion, was denounced by high-profile elected Republicans […].

   2025 November 6, Clyde McGrady, “Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

2. countablehistoricaluncountableThe 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.First known use 17th c.

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

   1973, Eisig Silberschlag, “Notes”, in From Renaissance to Renaissance: Hebrew Literature from 1492-1970, New York: Ktav Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 389

3. countableobsoleteuncountableJudaism.First known use 16th c.
4. countableobsoleteuncountableThe land of the Jews; Judea.First known use 16th–17th c.

   1507, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry on / Affairs of Antony; there did persuade / Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar /

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   And all the londe off iewry, and they of Jerusalem went out unto hym, and were all baptised of hym in the ryver Jordan [...].

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

   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[…].

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

   In Bethlehem, in Jury / This blessed babe was born

   1833, “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen”, in W. B. Sandys, editor, Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, page 102

1. A surname.