All 3 Uses of
Judaism
in
Anna Karenina
- It was in the hands of two ministers, one lady, and two Jews, and all these people, though the way had been paved already with them, Stepan Arkadyevitch had to see in Petersburg.†
Part 7Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
- Oh, I shan't remember all that, if you tell it to me....But what possesses you to have to do with railways and Jews?†
Part 7 *
- Well, but the Jews, the Mohammedans, the Confucians, the Buddhists—what of them?" he put to himself the question he had feared to face.†
Part 8
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.