| 单词 | jewish question |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJewish question Jewish question n. now chiefly historical or offensive (usually with the) a question or debate about the appropriate status, rights, and treatment of Jewish people within a nation state or in society in general (often in anti-Semitic contexts); cf. Jewish problem n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > problem or debate concerning Negro question1801 Jewish question1821 Jewish problem1846 1821 Norfolk Chron. & Norwich Gaz. 20 Oct. 4/4 At the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, every Sovereign, by his Minister, signed a document declaring that the Jewish question supplied a problem unsolved for 1700 years. 1877 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Jan. 3/1 Considering the extraordinary proportion of Jews to Christians in Roumania, the Jewish question there cannot be argued like the Jewish question anywhere else. 1970 E. Kübler-Ross On Death & Dying (1973) ii. 12 News agencies may be able to contribute their share in helping people face the reality of death by avoiding such depersonalized terms as the ‘solution of the Jewish question’ to tell of the murder of millions of men, women, and children. 1983 S. Bellow Let. 15 July (2010) 412 Israelis now hold a monopoly over all discussions of the Jewish question, which I am not too eager to challenge. 2002 T. M. Endelman Jews of Brit. iv. 153 In the late 1870s..while Britain was not gripped by the kind of Judenhetze that seized Germany, Austria, and France, there was, nonetheless, a ‘Jewish Question’. < as lemmas |
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