Jewishness

[joo-ish-nis]

noun

1. the state or quality of being Jewish.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Jewishness¹

First recorded in 1540–50; Jewish + -ness

Example Sentences

The coverup didn’t quite work—Dillon’s Jewishness was often suspected—but he never stopped trying.

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Other students and staff “are hiding their Jewishness,” Sacks said.

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But if Roth’s interest in Judaism was intermittent, his engagement with Jewishness—as temperament and as argument—was lifelong.

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He also went after Wax, highlighting his Jewishness and calling him “a traitor to his generation, to young white men, to right-wingers, to free speech, all of it.”

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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.

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