Jewishness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Jewishness
Example Sentences
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"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
The coverup didn’t quite work—Dillon’s Jewishness was often suspected—but he never stopped trying.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Eager to serve his premise regarding Dylan’s Jewishness, Freedman sometimes turns it into a flimsy fallback device.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2025
Just like Esther, we are invited to step into our power - not by moving away from our Jewishness, but by stepping into it in order to enact change.
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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