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Definition of Jewish new year
1. Noun. (Judaism) a solemn Jewish feast day celebrated on the 1st or 1st and 2nd of Tishri; noted for the blowing of the shofar.
Category relationships: Judaism
Generic synonyms: Feast Day, Fete Day, High Holiday, High Holy Day
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jewish New Year
Literary usage of Jewish new year
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Time's Telescope for ...; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack (1816)
"This festival of the jewish new year is also called The Feast of Trumpets, from
Numbers, chap, xxix, 1 : ' And, in the seventh month, on the first day of ..."
2. Jewish Education in New York City by Alexander Mordecai Dushkin (1918)
"... districts of the city, on the two days of the jewish new year, and on a normal
day of the year 1913; and also, on the two days of the jewish new year, ..."
3. Heart to Heart: Frank Talks on Familiar Themes by Alexander Lyons (1921)
"The jewish new year is a time of revival in Jewish life. The Jew who fails to
respond to its summons is somewhat blunted to finer Jewish interests and has ..."
4. Bible Chronology: Carefully Unfolded ... to which is Added a Restoration of by Smith Bartlett Goodenow (1896)
"... first Jewish month (April) to be both in the same 2oth year of Artaxerxes at
the Persian court; which therefore does not begin with the jewish new year, ..."
5. American Jewish Year Book by American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America (1909)
"The new German Bourse Law includes both days of the jewish new year and the Day
of Atonement among the holidays officially recognized by the State. ..."
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