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  • We cannot have Jews on the staff here at Darlington Hall.   (source)
    Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
  • Tomorrow you will be expelled, you and your family, you and all the other Jews.   (source)
  • In the summer of 1941, the Einsatzgruppen drove deeper east, killing hundreds of thousands of Jews.   (source)
  • I was usually the only Korean in a room of young Jews and Chinese and Hispanics.   (source)
  • I was too young, I suppose, and too ignorant to make the connection between Judaism and Christianity.   (source)
    Judaism = the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- whose believers are known as Jews
  • When the fire had burned down to embers, the boys raided the pushcarts of the Jewish merchants and stole potatoes which they roasted in the ashes.   (source)
    Jewish = believers in Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or members of it's culture
  • The Protocols, published in 1903, purported to be a record of a secret meeting of powerful Jews planning world domination.†   (source)
  • Genetics 101 Both sides of Dad's family were Jews from Russia and Poland.†   (source)
  • Some of our newspapers printed stories that no Jews went to work at the World Trade Center that day.†   (source)
  • The bit about Israel used to draw the ire of Afghans in Fremont who accused him of being pro-Jewish and, de facto, anti Islam.†   (source)
  • We began in a room with a video about Jews in Holland and the Nazi invasion and the Frank family.†   (source)
  • He even has people lift him up in a chair and dance with him around the room, because he had seen them do that at a Jewish friend's bar mitzvah.†   (source)
  • Mary was a sweet Jewish broad who got herself knocked up!†   (source)
  • Then it flew east of Frankfurt, where a Jewish woman named Edith Frank was caring for her newborn, a girl named Anne.†   (source)
  • The Jewish people go there to mourn.†   (source)
  • Jake was Jewish, so he could not possibly be related to Samuel W. Westing.†   (source)
  • There was a myth that Jewish generals didn't lose wars.†   (source)
  • He'd got hold of his business through cheating the Jews, said Reenie in an ambiguous tone — was this something of a feat, in her books?†   (source)
  • At least if you're "Jewish," you can feel "blue-ish" during Christmas, but with "Muslim" you're just stuck.†   (source)
  • At one time I thought these were like Jewish "good luck" charms, but I'd come to understand this wasn't their purpose.†   (source)
  • They may look like me, but for all of the Ivy League's obsession with diversity, virtually everyone—black, white, Jewish, Muslim, whatever— comes from intact families who never worry about money.†   (source)
  • His being Jewish was incidental and had never before interfered with what he did or who he befriended.†   (source)
  • A tram rattled past him, a white sign on its side declaring in black letters: "Jews Not Wanted Here!"†   (source)
  • When my grandparents moved to the United States, in the 1950s, the South Bronx had already begun its transformation from a majority Jewish borough to one dominated by blacks and Latinos.†   (source)
  • Literally, the very center of the Jewish faith.†   (source)
  • She says were not Jews but were poor and that's almost as dangerous.†   (source)
  • He enjoyed some of the philosophies of Buddhism and Christianity, and he still felt at home, culturally, in Judaism.†   (source)
  • She would not listen to arguments that John Morel, her own husband and Little Emma's father, was one-quarter Jewish himself.†   (source)
  • They asked him if he had ever seen any Jews before, "because we've been the first for about seventy-five percent of the people we've met."†   (source)
  • But Lilly says it's the principle of the thing, and that maybe if people had made a big deal about how the Nazis smashed up Jewish people's store windows on Kristalnacht they wouldn't have ended up putting so many people in ovens.†   (source)
  • There were ten white wooden crosses, even though one of the dead children-Justin Friedman-had been Jewish.†   (source)
  • Owen suggested that someone check into the admissions policy at the small private day school in Lake Forest; were there any Jews or blacks in Mr. White's school?†   (source)
  • Jews Take Over Our Farmland.†   (source)
  • The Jackson Jews got to swim at the Colonial Country Club, the Negroes, in May's Lake.†   (source)
  • He faced a double genocide, of Jews by the Nazis and of peculiars by the hollowgast.†   (source)
  • "Annemarie," he said, "Peter tells us that the Germans have issued orders closing many stores run by Jews."†   (source)
  • I only played a little in college with some Jewish friends.†   (source)
  • She talked to Yuko about it and they realized that this man, preaching to a thousand impressionable and trusting parishioners, didn't know, or didn't care, that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity were not-so-distantly related branches of the same monotheistic, Abrahamic faith.†   (source)
  • The butcher says, Are you a bit of an expert, missus, on the Jews and the pig.†   (source)
  • Soon, though, the fact that they were Jews would become the most important thing about them.†   (source)
  • When you crucified that first-century Jewish peasant, we were watching.†   (source)
  • All across Europe, Jewish people were being hunted.†   (source)
  • There were about a thousand Jews in Narewka.†   (source)
  • All Jewish holidays are about remembering, Mama.†   (source)
  • You Jewish, Theodore?†   (source)
  • I only met Jacqueline van Maarsen when I started at the Jewish Lyceum, and now she's my best friend.†   (source)
  • Her family was fleeing poverty and the persecution of Jews.†   (source)
  • The school pulled in well-off white kids, a good number of whom were Jewish.†   (source)
  • I am Jewish, you know.†   (source)
  • Dad, why do Jews feel that things are...less important now than before the Hegira?†   (source)
  • She thinks of an article she read at the beauty salon, by a Jewish lady who survived a concentration camp.†   (source)
  • Ben is half-Jewish, half-Chinese, raised in Newton, close to where Gogol and Sonia grew up.†   (source)
  • That's how Orthodox Jews mourn their dead.†   (source)
  • Rich, for her part, addresses the earlier poet Robinson Jeffers in "Yom Kippur, 1984," in which she considers the implications of the Day of Atonement, and matters of Judaism appear in her poetry with some frequency.†   (source)
  • At night, the corrugated doors of those shops are rolled down and padlocked, and the huddled masses take up residence on sidewalks "Los Angeles is a Beethoven city, but you have Walt Disney, Colonel Sanders, LAPD, the blacks, all the Yo-Yo Ma people, Jews, like JEW-hard, homosexuals.†   (source)
  • As he was being accused of heresy before a Jewish court, they saw that "his face became as bright as an angel's.†   (source)
  • All three knew about the research Nazis had done on Jewish prisoners.†   (source)
  • I could as easily have gone for help to a Jewish synagogue or a Shinto temple, or—Ah.†   (source)
  • He was old-time FBI, and couldn't help but wonder what Mr. Hoover would think of that, not to mention the new Jewish director.†   (source)
  • Judaism was just a loose collection of Yahwistic cults, each with different shrines and practices.†   (source)
  • We Jews are very partial to the piano.†   (source)
  • I ran to buy her a diamond brooch on the street of the Jewish jewelers.†   (source)
  • The agencies—which include the International Rescue Committee, the organization founded in 1933 by Albert Einstein to help bring Jewish refugees from Europe to the United States, as well as World Relief, Lutheran Family Services, and others—are contracted by the government to help refugee families settle in to their new lives.†   (source)
  • The woman was Jewish, and consequently Lobach was the father of a Jew in the midst of Nazi Germany.†   (source)
  • It seemed to me Buddy Willard and I were like that Jewish man and that nun, although of course we weren't Jewish or Catholic but Unitarian.†   (source)
  • They'd crossed over now from the section where mostly Italian people lived, to an area where it was all Jews.†   (source)
  • This time they brought a telescope and a magnifying glass the size of a drum, which they exhibited as the latest discovery of the Jews of Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Cheshvan, known as "the bitter month," is the only month without any Jewish holidays or fasts, making it an unholy month.†   (source)
  • I took a deep breath and told him about going down in the mine and then what Dad had said about Wernher von Braun and Mr. Bykovski being a Jewish person.†   (source)
  • But a few months later I was sleeping over, and she confessed that sometimes when she's upset about something she recites this Catholic bedtime prayer she memorized when she was little, even though she's half Jewish and doesn't even believe in God anyway.†   (source)
  • Down with Jews.†   (source)
  • In Toronto there were the Jews who opened their businesses to employ the Nisei.†   (source)
  • When these kinds of passages arise in the Bible, Christians and Jews mostly shrug them off.†   (source)
  • So on this trip he carried two Madras nuns, three Cochin Jews, a Gujarati family, three suspicious-looking Malays, and a few Europeans, including two French sailors rejoining their ship in Aden.†   (source)
  • She rocked her on and on, past Dachau, where soul-gutted Jewish mothers swept their children's entrails off laboratory floors.†   (source)
  • The Twelfth lost its eagle the first time way back in ancient days, during the Jewish Rebellion.†   (source)
  • One last thing: Hiram, my editor, felt the Miracle Max section was too Jewish in sound, too contemporary.†   (source)
  • One was an old, venerable white-haired guy with bifocals, another was some young brilliant Jewish guy, like one of the teachers he had at Jefferson.†   (source)
  • Then a little bit later he turned to being Jewish.†   (source)
  • You are like the jews.†   (source)
  • Black men, white men, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Jews, Poles, whatever—all were inadequate and weak, all came under their jaundiced eyes and were the recipients of their disinterested wrath.†   (source)
  • Poles do not, in general, like Jews.†   (source)
  • Since opinions vary, there are various kitsches: Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Communist, Fascist, democratic, feminist, European, American, national, international.†   (source)
  • And he told me about the concentration camps, and about how the Germans had made soap and candles out of the fat of dead Jews and so on.†   (source)
  • Illness in early childhood, marriage to a Jewish woman, science itself of course, cultural heritage—the allowable flush of Italian pride, only not so rousing in this case, attached to such destruction.†   (source)
  • Iseman was the world's foremost clinical authority on the disease, and he worked in the world's best mdr treatment center, National Jewish in Denver.†   (source)
  • This time around, the Klan was not confined to the South but ranged throughout the country; this time, it concerned itself not only with blacks but also with Catholics, Jews, communists, unionists, immigrants, agitators, and other disrupters of the status quo.†   (source)
  • 'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger.†   (source)
  • I wrote one good story—Jewish soldiers in Saudi Arabia were forced to pray in closets and had the Star of David removed from their dog tags—and about four truly bad ones.†   (source)
  • Moslems believe that Moses was a prophet sent from God and that the Torah was God's law as presented to the Jews.†   (source)
  • He was Jewish, but sure, he'd come to church and lip-sync the hymns.†   (source)
  • Jewish stores are sometimes defaced with swastikas.†   (source)
  • The nuns I glimpsed were robed and ghostly figures I wanted no part of Culturally we were like those Jews who observe certain traditions but never visit a synagogue.†   (source)
  • That Paine had attempted to prove the unlawfulness of monarchy with analogies from the Bible, declaring monarchy to be "one of the sins of the Jews," struck Adams as ridiculous.†   (source)
  • Most often, the damage they do falls only on themselves, but there have been times when, in mobs, they have laid blame for the Plague on the sins of others—Jews, many times.†   (source)
  • We didn't know if they were Jewish, Catholic or whatever, so we said a general committal: 'We commit you into the earth and the mercy of Almighty God.'†   (source)
  • "What really humbled me was how the response came from all sorts of people, from church groups, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • He'd exterminated six million Jews.†   (source)
  • This reality, often described as the "closing" of the Western frontier, had a huge psychological impact just when Eastern cities were filling up with immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, many of them Catholics and Jews.†   (source)
  • Normally it's almost black and very curly which she says is because her dad was Jewish, although she doesn't practice his religion.†   (source)
  • Granny had been providing me with ham and sausage ever since Papa decided if the Lord thought hog meat was bad for the Jews, then we weren't going to eat it, either.†   (source)
  • He became aware that the doctrinal differences among Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism.†   (source)
  • Or was that said only of Jewish business?†   (source)
  • He sent Poles, Slovaks and Jews to the showers after torture sessions in which he extracted-and manufactured—'incriminating' information Dachau's commandants wanted to hear.†   (source)
  • But you don't look at all Jewish!†   (source)
  • In the Bible, the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, and before that the Jews had slaves themselves.†   (source)
  • The older man looked in the direction of the sound and then added, "And he's Jewish.†   (source)
  • Despite Loonie mixture of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and ninety-nine other flavors, I suppose Sunday is commonest day for church.†   (source)
  • I felt sorry for the Jews getting thrown out of Egypt and having to drag themselves across the desert to find a home.†   (source)
  • Once we got word the Germans were definitely coming for our Jewish brothers and sisters, we smuggled them to safe houses along the eastern coastline.†   (source)
  • "Jewish bankers run this country!" one of them shouted.†   (source)
  • "Jews squeeze the eagle till it screams," said Hollis.†   (source)
  • The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us westerners in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.†   (source)
  • She's Jewish, you see.†   (source)
  • Not that Suzanne didn't pride herself on knowing all about the Jewish holidays, not that she didn't love throwing around the Yiddish expressions she'd picked up from Miri's grandmother.†   (source)
  • singles, couples, entire families, blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos and four towering Samoan men, all with black porkpie hats, beautiful sloe-eyed women, willow graceful in their turquoise or ruby or sapphire saris, others in chadors and others in jeans, men in business suits, men in shorts and bright polo shirts, four young Hasidic Jews arguing (but joyfully) over the most mystical of all documents (a Los Angeles freeway map), uniformed soldiers, giggling children and shrieking children and two placid octogenarians in wheelchairs, a pair of tall Arab princes in akals and kaffiyehs and flowing djellabas, preceded by fierce bodyguards and trailed by retinues, beacon-red tourist†   (source)
  • Every Orthodox Jew sent his male children to a yeshiva, a Jewish parochial school, where they studied from eight or nine in the morning to four or five in the evening.†   (source)
  • You Jewish guy.†   (source)
  • His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like "the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo."†   (source)
  • Centuries later, this tradition reemerged in the laws of the Jews under Moses, and became a well-known part of the Bible.†   (source)
  • The company was founded by his grandfather, Elias Fife, a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania who knew nothing about cars but saw an opportunity, in 1919, when he learned that many people were frustrated with Ford and the other car manufacturers because they never made enough replacement parts, since all the money was in building new cars.†   (source)
  • Jon Marin, in spite of his name, looked and sounded like the epitome of a New York Jewish boy.†   (source)
  • As colonel of the 67th Ohio, Marcus Spiegel was the highest-ranking officer of the Jewish faith in the Ciyil War.†   (source)
  • This district is the largest contiguous planned community in the United States, and if you're black or Jewish, you weren't allowed to live there until 1948.†   (source)
  • He referred to Jews as "an elite people, sure of itself, domineering," and the rupture was complete.†   (source)
  • Only 138 had marked Protestant, 100 Catholic, and 46 Jewish.†   (source)
  • Six hundred Protestants, one hundred Catholics, three Jews, two Greeks, one Puerto Rican.†   (source)
  • And descendants of English, Irish, Italian, Jewish, German, Polish are essentially American.†   (source)
  • Leamas guessed she was twenty-two or three, and Jewish.†   (source)
  • Except for two Jewish families, they are ostracized from society in Hattiesburg.†   (source)
  • "In the ancient conflict of the Jews and the Babylonians," he said—but there he was cut off.†   (source)
  • The other Jews, just as talented, who went to bank for the Ottoman Empire, in Turkey or Egypt or wherever, didn't do so well.†   (source)
  • Have we watched Mohammed begin the Hegira, or Moses giving the Jews their laws?†   (source)
  • You can't imagine what the wretched Jewish population is going through in this war.†   (source)
  • A rocking chair betrayed reiterate strain, as of a defective lung; like a single note from a stupendous jews-harp, the chain of a porch swing twanged.†   (source)
  • Haganah was the political authority of the Jewish National Movement in Palestine.†   (source)
  • He went up the stairs between two old warm Jewish women.†   (source)
  • Those whose kinsmen or former countrymen had been among the Jews, Poles, Czechs and other nationality groups terrorizedby Hitler and his cohorts were shocked.†   (source)
  • The Talmud is Judaism's second-holiest book.
  • He thought of us, the Schindlerjuden, the Schindler Jews, as the children he never had.†   (source)
    Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
  • He asked who we were; we answered we were Jews from Poland.†   (source)
  • There were constant reports of recurring hostility toward Jews.†   (source)
  • He constantly attracted suspicion for his corruption and for his unorthodox treatment of Jews.†   (source)
  • When someone spoke of what the Jews had gone through, their stock response was "We didn't know."†   (source)
  • As I lay on my shelf, I listened as the men reviewed the day's score: Jews 20, Nazis 0.†   (source)
  • But Nazi dogma grouped Jews as one, as the loathed enemy of the Aryans.†   (source)
  • That summer the backlash in Krak6w against returning Jews intensified.†   (source)
  • On August 11, 1945, rioting broke out when a gentile boy claimed that Jews were trying to kill him.†   (source)
  • He would point me out to visitors and say that I was an example of how hard his Jews were working.†   (source)
  • So the next time the Nazis started rounding up Jews, chaos erupted.†   (source)
  • Instead, we coped, as all Jews in the ghetto tried to do.†   (source)
  • A week later the Nazis had another train waiting and began to round up more Jews.†   (source)
  • To some, the Jews' unexpected return was not welcome.†   (source)
  • There were reports that Jews beaten in the streets had been hospitalized only to be beaten again.†   (source)
  • Other Jews were better off than we were.†   (source)
  • Outsiders, ironically, in a country where Jews had a long history.†   (source)
  • This land was purchased by the Jewish National Fund.†   (source)
    Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture
  • A boy who had to fight every day of his life because his ancestors happened to be Jewish.†   (source)
  • We can take a Jewish boy from a kibbutz and turn him into an Arab from Jenin.†   (source)
  • It was one of several new establishments that catered to Netanya's growing French-Jewish community.†   (source)
  • Natalie walked swiftly; even in Rehavia, an entirely Jewish neighborhood, she no longer felt safe.†   (source)
  • And everyone knows that the best doctors are always Jewish.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows that all the best doctors are Jewish.†   (source)
  • "Or a smart Jewish boy with a PhD from Caltech," said Fareed.†   (source)
  • Regardless of what her enemies might say, she considered herself French first and Jewish second.†   (source)
  • Because I'm Jewish, and I can't pretend to be anything else just because I speak their language.†   (source)
  • Some of the men who had begun to watch out for me told me where the Schindler Jews had been assigned.†   (source)
    Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
  • She and my father joined the Narewka Benevolent Club, which had been founded by Jews who had immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s.†   (source)
  • Jews resisted the bleak surroundings by sharing their hopes and dreams and stories with one another, as Mr. Luftig did with me.†   (source)
  • He could not bring himself to leave without saying good-bye and gathered his Jews together one last time.†   (source)
  • Some 1,500 Jews volunteered to go, thinking that anything must be better than the squalid environment they were in.†   (source)
  • The day the new "Schindler Jews" were to leave for the sub-camp, I sneaked away from my job at the brush factory to see my mother off.†   (source)
  • Plenty of Jews had blue eyes and blond hair, and many Germans and Austrians, including Adolf Hitler, had dark eyes and hair.†   (source)
  • To Nazi eyes, we Jews were a single, detested group, the exact opposite of the blond, blue-eyed, pure "Aryans."†   (source)
  • The Emalia factory operated around the clock, with mostly non-Jews working days and Schindler's Jews assigned to the night shifts.†   (source)
  • I had mistakenly believed that such discrimination was unique to Jews suffering under Nazi oppression.†   (source)
  • Schindler dared to rebel against the law of the land, which was to torture and exterminate Jews, not to treat us as fellow human beings.†   (source)
  • When word passed through the camp that Schindler planned to add thirty Jews to his workforce, I didn't think anything about it.†   (source)
  • They were two of the Jews who had been expelled from Germany and had somehow made their way to Krakow.†   (source)
  • He was already sympathetic to the plight of his Jewish workers; but from that time on, he increased his efforts to save as many Jews as he could.†   (source)
  • We had waited too long at the infirmary with her before heading home and had stayed out past the evening curfew, the hour when all Jews had to be off the streets.†   (source)
  • Some were antisemitic and had been pleased to see us out of what they considered to be their country, despite the fact that Jews had lived there for over one thousand years.†   (source)
  • Soon there were more and more people looking for space as Jews returned to the city to search for their families and try to reclaim their homes and their prewar lives.†   (source)
  • Following the invading German army, mobile killing squads of the SS, called Einsatzgruppen, had swept through the villages of eastern Poland with the sole purpose of murdering Jews.†   (source)
  • When other German factory owners took their profits and fled Krakow, intent on saving their lives and fortunes, Schindler increased his efforts to save his Jews.†   (source)
  • His accountant, Itzhak Stern, thought that Schindler committed to saving Jews after he witnessed the mass killings during the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto.†   (source)
  • Rumors circulated that emaciated Jews returning from the camps were using gentile children's blood for transfusions, a revival of the ancient accusation known as blood libel.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I flashed back to Krakow, when the Nazis ordered us Jews to the back of the bus (before they forbade us from traveling on public transportation altogether).†   (source)
  • By treating us with respect, Schindler was resisting the Nazi racist ideology that constructed a hierarchy of humanity in which Jews were at the very bottom.†   (source)
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