Dictionary

Jewish flag en · NOUN

Etymology

Sense 2 alludes to the stereotype of Jews as money-grubbing.

Meanings

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Jewish, flag.
   • Jews in Palestine have appealed for the right to form a separate Jewish Army under a Jewish flag. This community, built up by the toil and sacrifice of decades is now in mortal danger and, as freemen everywhere, have not only the[…] 1944, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Jewish National Home in Palestine: Hearings Before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Seventy-Eighth Congress, Second Session, page 339:
   • As American Jews grappled with the questions of patriotism, Communism, and Zionism after the war, the blue Jewish flag would also be translated into dramatic representations of the Jewish struggle against oppression. 2021 May 4, Avinoam Patt, The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:
   • The combination of blue and white as the colors of the Jewish flag was derived from an 1860 poem (“Judah's Colors”) by Austrian Ludwig August Frankl, which explained that the blue symbolized “the splendors of the firmament,” and the[…] 2010 January 1, Ronald L. Eisenberg, Jewish Traditions: A JPS Guide, Jewish Publication Society, →ISBN, page 577:
2. (US, ethnic, slang, slur) A dollar bill.
   • Four Jewish flags I blow, four lovely bucks. 1921, Adventure, volume 28, numbers 1-3, page 129:

Forms