Jewry

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman juerie. Synchronically analyzable as Jew +‎ -ry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒuːɹi/

Noun

Jewry (plural Jewries)

1. 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
   • 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (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

Synonyms

• Jewdom

Translations

Jews in general, the Jewish population of a locale

• Albanian: çifutëri (sq) f
• Armenian: հրեություն (hy) (hreutʿyun)
• Belarusian: яўрэ́йства n (jaŭréjstva), габрэ́йства n (habréjstva)
• Bulgarian: еврейство n (evrejstvo)
• Catalan: jueria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 猶太民族, 犹太民族 (yóutài mínzú)

• Czech: židovstvo (cs) n, Židovstvo n
• Esperanto: judaro
• Estonian: juudid pl
• Finnish: juutalaiset pl
• French: judéité (fr) f, judaïté (fr) f, judeïté f, judaïcité (fr) f, juiverie (fr) f

• German: Judentum (de) n; Judenheit (de) f
• Hebrew: עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל‎ m (Am Yisrael)
• Hungarian: zsidóság (hu)
• Japanese: ユダヤ民族 (ユダヤみんぞく, yudaya minzoku)
• Lithuanian: žydija f (usually implies negative connotation)
• Polish: żydostwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: judiaria (pt) f
• Russian: евре́йство (ru) n (jevréjstvo), евре́и (ru) m pl (jevréi)
• Spanish: pueblo judío m, judería (es) f
• Ukrainian: євре́йство n (jevréjstvo), євре́ї m pl (jevréji)
• Yiddish: ייִדנטום‎ n (yidntum)

the land of Jews (obsolete) — see Judea

See also

• Jew
• ghetto
• Judaism