Definitions
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- noun The
realm ,sphere ,influence , ordomain ofJews ; the whole body of Jews collectively;Jewry . - noun The
state orcondition of being a Jew;Jewishness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Actually, there was a girl in my class with a Jewish father, which disqualified her, in my parents 'eyes, from bona fide Jewdom, religion being transmitted on the maternal side as if it were a chromosomal abnormality rather than a cultural inheritance).
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In the XXIst century, Jewdom is getting darker, so we might as well enjoy it.
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At any rate, the minds of the Jews were prepared, the feeling was in the air, Jewdom was ripe for a change.
Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil Max Simon Nordau 1886
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Jew who desires to guard Jewdom against destruction and to preserve it as an ethnical individuality.
Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil Max Simon Nordau 1886
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It is true that more than one educated Jew has been moved only by Anti-Semitism to throw in his lot again with Jewdom, and he would again fall away if his Christian fellow-countrymen would receive him anew in a friendly spirit.
Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil Max Simon Nordau 1886
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This gradually changed about the middle of the eighteenth century, when enlightenment first began to find its way into Jewdom, in the person of its first herald, Moses Mendelssohn, the popular philosopher.
Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil Max Simon Nordau 1886
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It was common to blame the "international Jewdom."
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Tzoran 2010
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It was common to blame the "international Jewdom."
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Tzoran 2010
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LOL I will set up the Holy See of the Jewdom in Jerusalem.
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These new Jews shrug their shoulders at that twaddle which has been the fashion among rabbis and _literati_ for the last hundred years, and which boasts of a "Mission of Jewdom," said to consist in this, that the Jews must live forever in dispersion among the peoples in order to act as their teachers and models of morality, and to educate them gradually to pure rationalism, to a general brotherhood of mankind, and to an ideal cosmopolitanism.
Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil Max Simon Nordau 1886
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