Both Uses of
Judaism
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- It is nearly all gone now; only straggling bits belong to the family, and the rest has passed to Jews and Negroes.†
Chpt 7 *Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
- Nearly all the lands belong to Russian Jews; the overseers are white, and the cabins are bare board-houses scattered here and there.†
Chpt 7
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.