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Jewdom en · NOUN

Etymology

From Jew + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The realm, sphere, influence, or domain of Jews; the whole body of Jews collectively; Jewry.
    • The peculiar Morality of Jewdom. That the Hebrew is not very particular with regard to his moral obligations towards other people, is fairly well known. 1927, Theodor Fritsch, The riddle of the Jew's success:
    • Then followed Talmudism in such parts of Jewdom as had become European. 1873, The new era:
  2. (rare, uncountable) The state or condition of being a Jew; Jewishness.
    • The self-emancipation of our age would be emancipation from bargaining and from money, that is from practical, real Jewdom. 2003, Jerry Z. Muller, The mind and the market: capitalism in modern European thought: