All 18 Uses of
Judaism
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- She was excited by the filled pushcarts--each a little store in itself--the bargaining, emotional Jews and the peculiar smells of the neighborhood; baked stuffed fish, sour rye bread fresh from the oven, and something that smelled like honey boiling.†
Chpt 1
- Mama said that the Jews had never looked on Jesus as anything but a troublesome Yiddish boy who would not work at the carpentry trade, marry, settle down and raise a family.†
Chpt 1
- And the Jews believed that their Messiah was yet to come, mama said.†
Chpt 1
- "I guess that's why the Jews have so many babies," Francie thought.†
Chpt 1
- The little Jewish delicatessen was full of Christians buying Jew rye bread.†
Chpt 1
- "Gol-lee!" he whispered rolling his big brown Jewish eyes.†
Chpt 1
- Neeley had heard papa speak so of a Jewish bartender that he liked.†
Chpt 1
- "And other Jews turned right around and killed him," clinched the big boy.†
Chpt 1
- Next to them sat a Jewish mama who clutched a large six-year-old boy in her arms and wept and kissed his forehead passionately from time to time.†
Chpt 18
- 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.
Chpt 24 *Jewish = believers in Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or members of it's culture
- Francie had to walk a long way up Manhattan Avenue before she found a Jewish dairy open.†
Chpt 40
- They say that by the Jews, money is everything.†
Chpt 45
- Windows could be heard shutting as the Jews and Italians withdrew leaving the fight to the Germans and Irish.†
Chpt 46
- Sissy was going to have a Jewish doctor!†
Chpt 50
- Because Jewish doctors are more sympathetic than Christian ones at a time like that.†
Chpt 50
- " "I've nothing against the Jews," began Katie, "but…"†
Chpt 50
- You don't see Jews calling in Christian doctors," said Evy, thinking she had made a telling point.†
Chpt 50
- "Why should they," countered Sissy, "when they and everybody else knows that the Jewish doctors are smarter.†
Chpt 50
Definition:
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(Judaism) the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmudeditor's notes: The Christian Old Testament closely corresponds to the Hebrew (Jewish) Bible.