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If your image of Old World Jewry comes from Grade’s contemporary Isaac Bashevis Singer, with his kabbalists, dybbuks, and elaborate rabbinic courts, swap in Lithuanian Talmudists conducting self-critique and doing pilpul—close textual analysis—in spartan houses of study.
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Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) reported more than 2,000 antisemitic incidents in Australia since Palestinian militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
—Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2025
The Auschwitz killing center was just one part of the Nazis' vast effort to eliminate European Jewry.
—Greg Schneider and Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Carter’s image as a kindly elder statesman, friend to world Jewry and bulwark of Israel’s security took an immediate beating.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) reported more than 2,000 antisemitic incidents in Australia since Palestinian militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
—Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2025
The Auschwitz killing center was just one part of the Nazis' vast effort to eliminate European Jewry.
—Greg Schneider and Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Carter’s image as a kindly elder statesman, friend to world Jewry and bulwark of Israel’s security took an immediate beating.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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“Jewry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Jewry. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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Jewry
noun
Jew·ry
ˈju̇(ə)r-ē 
ˈjü-rē
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: the Jewish people
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