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English

Etymology

From Middle English Jewery, from Old French juerie. By surface analysis, Jew +‎ -ry.

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Jewry (countable and uncountable, plural Jewries)

  1. Jewish people considered collectively. [from 14th c.]
    Hitler attempted to murder all of European Jewry.
    • 1941, Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism‎, 3rd revised edition, published 1995, page 1:
      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.
    • 2009, Rafael Medoff, Chaim I. Waxman, The A to Z of Zionism‎, →ISBN, archived from the original on 27 November 2023, page 16:
      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.
    • 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ‎:
      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.
    • 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:
      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 […] .
      (Can we archive this URL?)
  2. (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. [from 17th c.]
    • 1973, Eisig Silberschlag, “Notes”, in From Renaissance to Renaissance: Hebrew Literature from 1492-1970‎, New York: Ktav Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 389:
      The Nazis who murdered Katzenelson also burned the entire Jewry of Radoshkowitz—Mane’s birthplace and burialplace in the vicinity of Vilna.
  3. (obsolete) Judaism. [16th c.]
  4. (obsolete) The land of the Jews; Judea. [16th–17th c.]

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Middle English

Noun

Jewry

  1. alternative form of Jewery

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