Jewry

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʊəɹi/, (modern also) /ˈd͡ʒɔːɹi/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːɹi/, /ˈd͡ʒʊɹi/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹi, -uːɹi
• Homophone: jury (most accents)

Noun

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^[1], 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^[2], →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^[3]:

     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^[4], 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 […] .

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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^[5], 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.]
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark:

     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, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

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

     In Bethlehem, in Jury / This blessed babe was born

Synonyms

• Jewdom
• B'nei Yisrael
• Klal Yisrael

Translations

Jews in general, the Jewish population of a locale

• Aghwan: 𐕛𐔰𐕖𐔰𐕙𐕒𐕡𐕎 (vačarun)
• Albanian: çifutëri (sq) f
• Arabic: يَهُود (ar) (yahūd)
• Armenian: հրեություն (hy) (hreutʻyun)
• Belarusian: яўрэ́йства n (jawréjstva), 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 (fi) 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)
• Italian: giudecca f
• Japanese: ユダヤ民族 (ユダヤみんぞく, yudaya minzoku)
• Lithuanian: žydija f (derogatory, offensive)
• Macedonian: еврејство n (evrejstvo)
• Middle English: Jewery
• Polish: żydostwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: judiaria (pt) f
• Russian: евре́йство (ru) n (jevréjstvo), евре́и (ru) m pl (jevréi)
• Sicilian: judeca f
• Spanish: pueblo judío m, judería (es) f
• Swedish: judenhet (sv) c
• Ukrainian: євре́йство n (jevréjstvo), євре́ї (uk) m pl (jevréji)
• Urdu: یَہُود (ur) m (yahūd)
• Yiddish: ייִדנטום n (yidntum)

Jewish quarter

• French: juiverie (fr) f
• Occitan: carrièra josaiga f, jutariá f
• Spanish: judería (es) f

the land of Jews (obsolete) — see Judea

See also

• Jew
• ghetto
• Judaism
• Klal Yisrael (a collective term for Jewish people)
• Edom (in medieval times, a Jewish term referring to Christian countries)
• Hindudom (Hindu world)
• Christendom (Christian world)
• Dar al-Islam, Islamosphere (the Muslim world)
• עם ישראל (Hebrew term for Jewish people in general)

Middle English

Noun

Jewry

1. alternative form of Jewery