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Definition of Jewish
1. Adjective. Of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion. "A Jewish wedding"
Definition of Jewish
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews; characteristic of or resembling the Jews or their customs; Israelitish.
Definition of Jewish
1. Adjective. Being a Jew, or relating to Jews, their religion or their culture. ¹
2. Adjective. Yiddish ¹
3. Proper noun. (informal dated) The Yiddish language. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jewish
Literary usage of Jewish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The greatest jewish poet of all the centuries was Judah Halevi (1086-1145; cf.
JE, vu. 346 sqq.), who wrote the songs which have become the national pride ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Open Court 31:725-40 D '17 Hebrew education in the family after the exile.
FH Swift. Open Court 32:9-29 Ja '18 jewish \veek-day instruction. IB Berkson. ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"This effort powerfully exhibited the intense jewish feeling of this noble woman in
... Emma Lazarus, in a few of her jewish writings, was a preacher to the ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"As Rabbi Juda was in office for over thirty years, he was the last jewish patriarch
who had to complain of the vexations of the pagan rulers of Rome. ..."
5. Journal of Theological Studies (1902)
"THE importance of jewish Archaeology for the study of Christian origins seems to
... Sanday laments that the brilliant group of jewish-Christian scholars, ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Another peculiar feature of this welding of the jewish and Greek spirits is
presented in the ... Here jewish authors adopted the mythical idea of a Sibyl, ..."
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