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Definition of Jewry
1. Noun. Jews collectively.
Terms within: Hebraism, Jewish Religion, Judaism
Member holonyms: Hebrew, Israelite, Jew
Definition of Jewry
1. n. Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter.
Definition of Jewry
1. Noun. (obsolete) The land of the Jews; Judea. (defdate 14th-17th c.) ¹
2. Noun. Jews in general; the Jewish population of a locale. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jewry
Literary usage of Jewry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"THE OLD jewry. THE Old jewry is the most centrical of the various places in the
... There is nothing Jewish now about the Old jewry except its name. ..."
2. London: Its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places by John Heneage Jesse (1871)
"TO the west of Lothbury is the Old jewry, so intimately associated with the ...
In the Old jewry was their great synagogue, and in this quarter they ..."
3. London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and Historical by John Heneage Jesse (1850)
"ON the south side of Lothbury is the Old jewry, so intimately associated with the
... In the Old jewry was their great synagogue, and in this quarter they ..."
4. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the Earliest Times Until the by Simon Dubnow (1920)
"THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE OF RUSSIAN jewry The result of all these persecutions was
the complete economic collapse of Russian jewry. ..."
5. The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in by Walter Wilson (1808)
"OLD jewry. ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN. i HE OLD jewry takes its name from the Jews,
whs Formerly inhabited, in great numbers, this quarter of the city. ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"Gresham had a town house in Milk Street and other premises in Lad Lane, both in
the parish of St. Lawrence jewry. His principal mansion was at Bethnal Green ..."
7. Select Pleas, Starrs, and Other Records from the Rolls of the Exchequer of by James Macmullen Rigg, Great Britain Public Record Office, Jewish Historical Society of England (1902)
"ARTICLES TOUCHING THE jewry. Touching Jews who falsify and clip coin, and receivers
who buy from them silver in plates fused from the clippings. ..."
8. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"The jewry—Allhallows Church—Terrible Gunpowder Accident near the Church—Famous
Men buried at Allhallows—Monumental Brass St. ..."
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