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Judenstern en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from German Judenstern, literally "Jew-star".

Meanings

1. (countable, historical) A yellow badge forced upon ordinary Jews (and many legally ‘Jewish’ people) in Western Axis states.
   • Therefore, Jews had to walk wherever they tried to go, although the wearing of a “Judenstern” or Jewish star on every outer garment was enforced at pain of death. 2014 April 1, Gerhard Falk, The German Jews in America: A Minority within a Minority, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, →ISBN, page 46:
   • For the exiled black man who had to bear his skin — the symbol of rejection — like a "Judenstern," there could be no escape. 1970, Barend van Dyk Van Niekerk, The African Image (Négritude) in the Work of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Balkema (A.A.), page 107:
   • A yellow Star of David—a Judenstern, as the Germans called it—with the word “Jude” embroidered in the center was on the left side of her coat just below her collar bone.. 2011 March 18, Ingrid U. Cowan, The Shadow of the Hakenkreuz, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 3:

Forms

Coordinates

rouelle

Hypernyms

Jewish badge · yellow badge · yellow patch

Synonyms

yellow star