All 9 Uses
Judaism
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The Handmaid's Tale
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- The one I remember best was with a woman who had been the mistress of a man who had supervised one of the camps where they put the Jews, before they killed them.†
Chpt 24Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
- She believed in decency, she was nice to the Jewish maid, or nice enough, nicer than she needed to be.†
Chpt 24 *Jewish = of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions) or it's culture
- It doesn't mean Jewish, those would be yellow stars.†
Chpt 31
- I saw a boatload of them, on the TV, leaning over the railings in their black coats and hats and their long beards, trying to look as Jewish as possible, in costumes fished up from the past, the women with shawls over their heads, smiling and waving, a little stiffly it's true, as if they were posing; and another shot, of the richer ones, lining up for the planes.†
Chpt 31
- Ofglen says some other people got out that way, by pretending to be Jewish, but it wasn't easy because of the tests they gave you and they've tightened up on that now.†
Chpt 31
- That's been on the TV too: raids at night, secret hoards of Jewish things dragged out from under beds, torahs, talliths, Magen Davids.†
Chpt 31
- The National Homelands and the Jewish boat-person plans were both his, as was the idea of privatizing the Jewish repatriation scheme, with the result that more than one boatload of Jews was simply dumped into the Atlantic, to maximize profits.†
Chpt 47
- The National Homelands and the Jewish boat-person plans were both his, as was the idea of privatizing the Jewish repatriation scheme, with the result that more than one boatload of Jews was simply dumped into the Atlantic, to maximize profits.†
Chpt 47
- The National Homelands and the Jewish boat-person plans were both his, as was the idea of privatizing the Jewish repatriation scheme, with the result that more than one boatload of Jews was simply dumped into the Atlantic, to maximize profits.†
Chpt 47Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
Definitions:
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(1)
(Judaism) the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the TalmudThe Christian Old Testament closely corresponds to the Hebrew (Jewish) Bible.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)