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Jewish, a.|ˈdʒ(j)uːɪʃ|
[f. Jew n. + -ish. The OE. equivalent was Iudeisc, early ME. Judewish.]
1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of, the Jews; Israelitish, Hebrew.
a1546Joye in Gardiner Declar. Joye (1546) 81 b, This scismatyke iewissh Hieroboam. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Col. ii. 16 In obseruyng of dayes, and in other Iewyshe rules. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Tit. i. 14 Not attending to Iewish fables [Wyclif fables of iewis; Tindale, etc. iewes fables]. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. iii. 113 You..spet vpon my Iewish Gaberdine. 1829Milman Hist. Jews ii. 85 The Jewish Exodus, or deliverance from Egypt. 1874Green Short Hist. ii. v, A Jewish Medical School seems to have existed at Oxford. 1925P. Gibbs Unchanging Quest xiv. 109 These peasants think the Duma will..kill all the Koulaks, or Jewish moneylenders. 1935[see Armenoid a.]. 1941Time 24 Feb. 102/3 Alfred Rosenberg last fortnight opened in Frankfurt am Main what Nazis call ‘the biggest library in the world dealing exclusively with the Jewish problem’. 1951A. Powell Question of Upbringing ii. 96 Yes—and have you seen it? A Jewish old clothes man would think twice about wearing it. 1957Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. 1093/2 The Jewish problem arose at a later date than in Spain, and it was not until 1536 that, under the influence of the civil power, the Inquisition was set up. 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 141 It is important to note that the idea of respect for others and the values of a pluralistic society form an old, integral part of Judaism and Jewish tradition. 1970I. Sieff Memoirs vi. 113 In February we submitted a memorandum to the Peace Conference. It asked that Palestine ‘Shall be placed under such political, administrative, and economic conditions as will ensure the establishment therein of the Jewish national home.’ 1970Times 24 Jan. 7/1 It is now declared that under the law of Israel a person may be of Jewish nationality although not of Jewish religion, whereas under Rabbinic law the two are inseparable. 1973Times 17 July 15/2 PLO leaders seek to identify a community of culture interest between the Palestinian Arabs and these oriental Jews whom they call ‘Jewish Arabs’. 1973Daily Mail 4 Oct. 4/5 The strain of anguish and uncertainty shows in the face of this Jewish woman as she waits with her grandson at a railway station before going to Schoenau transit camp in Austria. 1974[see Jew n. 1]. 1974Publishers Weekly 18 Feb. 12/2, I do not see why writers should be given ethnic identities when the habit of so designating individuals has been abandoned generally. I suppose it is because of the new use of the term ‘Jewish writers’. But those are writers—I believe—who concentrate on the experience of being Jewish in America.
2. fig. Chiefly referring to the extortion or overreaching attributed to Jewish money-lenders. (Offensive.)
1606Dekker Sev. Sinnes vi. (Arb.) 40 Brokers yat shaue poore men by most iewish interest. 1801Bp. of Lincoln in G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 426 Soane's office has offered only 19,000l...which is a Jewish offer. 1852Thackeray Esmond iii. vi, You ask a Jewish price for it, Mr. Graves.
3. Comb., as Jewish-looking,
1874L. Carr Jud. Gwynne II. viii. 194 A Jewish⁓looking gentleman in faultlessly-made clothes. |