All 6 Uses of
Judaism
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- ...old Adolf Hitler has been after the Jews and he's puttin' 'em in prisons and he's taking away all their property and he won't let any of 'em out of the country and...
p. 280.5 *Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
- Well anyway, Hitler's started a program to round up all the half-Jews too and he wants to register 'em in case they might wanta cause him any trouble and I think this is a bad thing and that's my current event.
p. 280.7
- There are no better people in the world than the Jews, and why Hitler doesn't think so is a mystery to me.
p. 281.4
- An inquiring soul in the middle of the room said, "Why don't they like the Jews, you reckon, Miss Gates?"
p. 281.5
- Miss Gates said, "When you get to high school, Cecil, you'll learn that the Jews have been persecuted since the beginning of history, even driven out of their own country."
p. 281.7
- Well, she went on today about how bad it was him treatin' the Jews like that.
p. 282.9
Definition:
the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud
The Christian Old Testament closely corresponds to the Hebrew (Jewish) Bible.