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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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Jew XII(
Giw,
Gyu,
Iu(w),
Ieu). — OF.
giu, earlier
juiu (mod.
juif) :- L.
jūdæus — Gr.
ioudaīos, f. Aram.
y'hûdhāi, Heb.
y'hûdhī, f.
y'hûdhāh Judah, name of a Jewish patriarch and the tribe descended from him. OE. had pl.
Iudeas. Jew's EAR fungus growing on trees, esp. the elder (on which Judas Iscariot, acc. to legend, hanged himself) XVI; mistr. of medL.
auricula Judæ Judas's ear.
Jews' HARP, earlier
Jews' TRUMP (XVI), rudimentary musical instrument, the ascription of which to Jews is unexpl.
Hence
Jewish XVI; OE. had
Iudeisċ.
Jewry Jews' quarter. ghetto XIII; Jews; †Judea, Palestine XIV. — AN.
juerie, OF.
juierie (mod.
juiverie).
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The Jew's Harp in the Law, 1590-1825
Magazine article from: Folk Music Journal; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...instrument in England, with references to Jew's harps or Jew's trumps spanning the late sixteenth...priced at 10s., and another has 'Jews-Trumpes, the groce, cont. 12...trade goods seems to indicate that Jew's harps of varying quality were...
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Jews Unite in Rally for Soviet Emigration;Diverse U.S. Jewish Groups Unite in Rally for Soviet Emigration
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/6/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...demonstration, said that many American Jews, reflecting on the Nazi extermination...go I . . . . For many American Jews, the opportunity to save another Jew is compelling and irresistible...extinction." "For American Jews, there's a sense of belonging...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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A JEWS FOR JESUS CHRISTMAS
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 11/28/1987; 700+ words
; ...can't Christmas be a Jewish Holiday? (Jews for Jesus advertisement) THIS ELECTRONIC...FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. This December, Jews for Jesus will be bringing home their message...organization behind the national campaign - Jews for Jesus - sounds like a contradiction...
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Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship.(Book review)
Magazine article from: American Jewish History; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...weak on the actual history of Jews in sports. They never ask: What types of athletics did Jews actually engage in? Why were...plea to build the new muscular Jew as a way to integrate into the...1920s on, even on the Sabbath. Jews differed in their team allegiances...
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Is the Jew white?: the racial place of the Southern Jew.(Special Issue: Directions in Southern Jewish History, Part One)
Magazine article from: American Jewish History; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Such a work as The Jew a Negro is representative...popular culture. Jews were a racial tabula...anthropological status of the Jews reflected their social...social line between Jew and white gentile...discolored skin. Jews were thought to exude...to menstruate. The Jew's sallow ...
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Jews concerned about Southern Baptists targeting them for conversion.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 6/26/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Other denominations have come to see Jews as saved in accordance with the Jewish...Southern Baptists still believe the Jews must be saved by accepting Christ. ``Jesus was a Jew, and his disciples were Jews,'' Lewis said. ``Originally...
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Jews pay the price of an American success in US
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/25/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...President Bill Clinton has named high-profile Jews to his cabinet and chosen Jews for both appointments he has made to the Supreme...remains subliminally beyond reach for American Jews. The only ethnic Jew ever to have been nominated was Barry Goldwater...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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JEWS, THE 'EVER-DYING PEOPLE,' ARE ETERNAL THREATENED SINCE ITS INCEPTION, JUDAISM IS ALWAYS IN TRANSITION.(Viewpoint)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 9/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...of Israel, to ``throw the Jews into the Mediterranean.'' Hate crimes against Jews flourish in parts of the world...been a better time to live as a Jew than now. Looking back on Jewish...described neighborhoods where Jews were forced to live because...
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Jews and Jesus.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Jesus because they are already Jews, and the mark of being a Jew is that one rejects Jesus"? Many Jews who believe in Jesus call themselves...accepts Jesus he is no longer a Jew of any description because Jews don't accept Jesus. But the...
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 "The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)")
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Mizrahi Jews Reach Out to the Arab World.
Newspaper article from: The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA); 10/2/2009; 700+ words
; ...society between Ashkenazi Jews (of European descent...and the division between Jew/non-Jew which the...building project, that the Jews are a distinct people and that Israeli Jews have a unified ethnicity...mere notion of an Arab Jew, as some Mizrahis identify...
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Jews
Book article from: American Eras
Jews New Netherland. The first recorded Jews in North America came to the Dutch West India Company ’...together but instead represented the two major immigrant streams of Jews that came to early America — the Ashkenazim, or European...
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Jews in the Middle East
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
JEWS IN THE MIDDLE EAST History of Jewish presence...Second Jewish Commonwealth in 70 c.e., Jews were living in much of the Middle East and...adyah Gaon in Iraq or Maimonides in Egypt. Jews in Persia also developed a Judeo-Persian...
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Jews of the Middle East
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Jews of the Middle East ETHNONYMS: Jews of Islam, Oriental Jews Orientation Prior to 1948, Jewish communties were found discontinuously in an area stretching from southwest Asia across North Africa, from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the north...
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Jews in American Theatre and Drama
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...widespread willingness to view Jews sympathetically can be assumed...of Richard Cumberland's The Jew (1795) less than a year after...derogatory stereotypes and present Jews “according to the...x2010;known depiction of a Jew in American drama was in Susanna...
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Cochin Jew
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Cochin Jew ETHNONYMS: Cochinis, Malabar ("Black") Jews, Paradesi ("Foreign" or "White") Jews Orientation Identification. The Cochin Jews are one of the smallest Jewish communities in the world. They hail from the Malabar Coast in...
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