How to Use Jew in a Sentence

Jew

noun

• And your maternal grandmother was a Jew who escaped the Holocaust, changed her name, and fled to America under false pretenses.
  — Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 29 July 2024
• Noni was white, a Jew from a small town in Iowa who’d majored in fine arts.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
• Filler-Corn had been the first woman and first Jew to serve as speaker of the Virginia House.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2023
• But to be a Jew in Paris in the late 1930s is to live within the loop of an ever-tightening noose.
  — Lauren Elkin, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• Louis lost his job when the Nuremberg Laws were adopted in 1935; as a Jew he was barred from teaching in a state school.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• David arrived nine months later, a 16-year-old Polish Jew who loved to sing.
  — Keren Blankfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• Even more so when Sandy Koufax, a fellow Jew, was pitching.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• The Soviet Union was a terrible place to be a Jew; god, was the fruit delicious.
  — Ruth Madievsky, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2023
• Jesus of Nazareth was a practicing Jew who arrived in Jerusalem for Passover the week of his death nearly 2,000 years ago.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 6 Apr. 2023
• Every innocent person on death row is like a Jew in Auschwitz.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 June 2024
• Those who use this as an excuse to hate Jews tend to forget that Jesus, in His earthly body, was a Jew, and therefore loved them.
  — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
• Larry is unsettled, as a Jew, by the militant posters on the restaurant’s walls.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Hahn, working in Nazi Germany, wasn't supposed to be exchanging ideas with a Jew.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
• Thus, the biblical lawgiver made sure that no Jew would ever get a perfect 10 in the test of the commandments.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• The idea of Jews living in postwar Gaza may seem improbable, but Gaza hasn’t always been Jew-free.
  — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
• Heinrich Heine, whose poem the statue commemorates, was a satirist and a Jew.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• An Iranian Jew, her parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s.
  — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
• Mark said that, as a Jew, he’s recently felt frustrated at the lack of support and the narratives arising from the conflict.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• As a Jew and a Communist activist, he had been threatened with prison and execution in Iraq.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• New Jersey suffered the third most incidents of Jew-hatred in the country, according to the report.
  — Mike Wagenheim, Sun Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
• And so along with the European image of the shape-shifting and deceptive Jew came the companion image of the Jew as farseeing and noble sage.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• One notable Jew, Simon Zukas, played a key role in Zambia’s struggle for independence in the 1950s.
  — Harry D. Wall, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2024
• And still, for Mandelbaum, the Nazi as much as the Jew was a possible avatar — because every drawing was a self-portrait, and art could be nothing else.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Some of the reforms backer want to create a stricter definition of what kind of Jew can become a citizen.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• From this perspective, the message of the four children is that every Jew has a place within Judaism, even the rasha, with all the difficulties that entails.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
• To a philosopher, as to a Jew, there is no insult as grave as placating assent, no tribute as great as a detailed rebuttal.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
• Many of them were also antisemites who believed that a Jew like Dreyfus had no place in France, let alone in the army, its most sacred institution.
  — Maurice Samuels / Made By History, TIME, 21 May 2024
• My grandfather was a 23-year-old, six-foot-tall American Jew who could hardly pronounce the French phrases listed on the notecard he’d been told to read if shot down.
  — Katie Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• Ben is just as afraid as Beau — afraid of letting his mothers down, afraid of not being a good enough Jew and, most pointedly, afraid that love and happiness isn’t a real option for him.
  — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2024
• Silver was optimistic, liked big necklaces and, as a Jew in Israel, would regularly take food to the Gaza border, Seidle said.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024