Jewishness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Jewishness
Example Sentences
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Waldemar’s Jewishness expresses itself in fighting for equal rights and helping the disenfranchised.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
"I grew up in a religious context where my Jewishness was very much entwined with the state of Israel, but I really started to interrogate that," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025
And yet, as Freedman implies throughout, elements of Dylan’s Jewishness remained central to his art and identity, from his commitment to social justice to his imaginative formation of a new persona.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2025
The secretly-Jewish Queen Esther and her cousin Mordecai foil Haman's plan when Esther reveals her Jewishness to her husband and convinces the king to spare her people from genocide.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2025
It was in her sense of education, more than any other, that Mommy conveyed her Jewishness to us.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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