Jewry meaning

jo͝o'rē
The Jewish people.
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A district inhabited only or mainly by Jews; ghetto.
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Jewish people collectively.

American Jewry.

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1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.27.

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 [...].

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Jews in general; the Jewish population of a locale. [from 14th c.]
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A section of a medieval city inhabited by Jews; a ghetto.
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Origin of jewry

From Anglo-Norman juerie.

Sentence Examples

  • The lecture-room was a church, St Lawrence Jewry, placed at his.

  • The communal organization of English Jewry is somewhat inchoate.

  • At the moment when Spinoza was publishing a system which is still a dominating note of modern philosophy, this other son of Israel was capturing the very heart of Jewry.

  • The Jews had their quarter near the commercial centre, their presence being indicated by the street named Old Jewry, though it is probable that they did not reoccupy this locality after their expulsion in 1290.

  • Besides the four chief orders of friars there were the Crutched Friars in the parish of St Olave, Hart Street (about 1298), and the Friars of the Sac first outside Aldersgate (about 1257) and afterwards in the Old Jewry.

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