crypto-Jew

[ krip-toh-joo ]

/ ˈkrɪp toʊˌdʒu /

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noun

a member of a Jewish community who secretly practices Judaism while officially converting, under duress, to either Christianity or Islam.

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But the enemy of the new emirs is neither the Jew nor the Christian, it is the godless militant defending secularism.
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Marrying another Jew was not just a personal simcha (joy), but one for the community.
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An Australian woman in her late twenties told me she was an “honorary Jew” with no actual Jewish heritage.
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In the book, there is a real guy named Gadbeck who was a German Jew who lived in Berlin the whole time during World War II.
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To me, being a Jew carries a low-grade paranoia that is both an overreaction and entirely justified, based on history.
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It was crowned by a wide-brimmed bowler hat which the man wore pressed down upon his ears like a Jew pedlar.
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He had no other opportunity; for the Jew remained very surly and silent till night, when he prepared to go abroad.
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You may burn a candle, said the Jew, putting one upon the table; and heres a book for you to read till they come to fetch you.
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Here, said Toby, as the young Jew placed some fragments of food and a bottle upon the table, Success to the crack!
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3)|Charles Dickens
The Jew was no sooner alone, than his countenance resumed its former expression of anxiety and thought.
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