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Jewishness

Jewishness

6 5.6
A sense of belonging to the Jewish people, religion, or culture
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒuːɪʃnəs/
translation icon : judeidad
  • Her Jewishness is reflected in the traditions she continues to celebrate every year.
  • defines Jewishness
  • definition of Jewishness
  • meaning of Jewishness

And for them socialism and Jewishness were linked.

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Examples

  • Though both men were Odessa cosmopolitans, Jewishness nonetheless distinguished Il'f and affected some part of his thinking.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Jews today hold a variety of different understandings of the essential nature of Jewishness.

    Academic text (1999)

  • We can deal with the demands of Jewishness fairly easily.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Father's discovery of his Jewishness was part of an overall strategy.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Their actions in doing so effectively determine the nature and destiny of Jewishness in Europe.

    Academic text (1999)

  • A close engagement with Danish culture has made Jewishness increasingly difficult to define since the Second World War.

    Academic text (1999)

  • For all this, Mandelstam's perception of Jewishness was never wholly negative.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The indelible Jewishness of her background is what brings her so many misfortunes.

    Academic text (1998)

  • We have pushed the Jewishness of the Christian story into the background, making Jesus' Jewishness insignificant to his sacramental presence.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Zvi and Ofra, native Israelis, believe their Western education taught them to hate their Jewishness and to deny their ancestry.

    Academic text (1996)

How Jewish

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Jewishness
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Surface Forms

Jewishness singular
Jewishnesses plural

Morphology

Jewishness = Jewish (transparent) = Jew + ish + ness

Formed by adding the adjective-forming suffix '-ish' to 'Jew' (making 'Jewish') and then the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to denote the state or quality; the meaning is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

Jewishness comes from the simple name Jew, which originally meant a person from the land and people called Judah, and the ending -ness means 'state' or 'quality'. So, Jewishness is the 'state of being Jewish', meaning a person's religion, culture, or identity.