Jew
Synagogue community member
A Jew is a member of the Jewish people—an ethnoreligious group tracing ancestry to the ancient Israelites and united by Judaism, Jewish culture, or both.
One can be Jewish by birth (having a Jewish mother, in traditional law) or by conversion.
She's a practicing Jew.
The verb jew, meaning to haggle or cheat, is an offensive stereotype and largely archaic.
Religion following Mosaic law
- TorahJudaism's core scripture
- synagogueJewish house of worship
- rabbiJewish spiritual leader
- ShabbatJewish day of rest
kosher · mitzvah · Talmud · Hebrew · prayer · yarmulke · menorah · Passover
Nazi genocide of Jews
- pogromViolent persecution of minorities
- ghettoSegregated urban quarter
- ZionismAdvocacy for Hebrew homeland
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
persecution · Shoah · concentration camp · diaspora · Kristallnacht · Inquisition · expulsion · Pale of Settlement
Middle Eastern national
- AshkenaziJews of European descent
- SephardicOf Iberian Jewish origin
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- YiddishAshkenazi Jewish language
Ladino · heritage · ancestry · lineage · tribe · Israelite · Semitic · ancestry
Traditional Ashkenazi folk music
- bagelBoiled, then baked roll
- latkeFried shredded potato cake
- challahBraided ceremonial Jewish bread
- gefilteFilled, in Yiddish
borscht · knish · pastrami · deli · Yiddish · shtetl · kibbutz · hora
Intolerance toward differing views
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
- scapegoatUnfairly blamed person
slur · hate crime · persecution · libel · conspiracy theory · Holocaust denial · exclusion · propaganda
Judaism
Religion following Mosaic law
Shabbat · kosher · mitzvah · Talmud · Hebrew · prayer · yarmulke · menorah · Passover · Hanukkah
Holocaust
Nazi genocide of Jews
- pogromViolent persecution of minorities
- ghettoSegregated urban quarter
- ZionismAdvocacy for Hebrew homeland
exodus · persecution · Shoah · concentration camp · diaspora · Kristallnacht · Inquisition · expulsion · Pale of Settlement · shtetl
Israeli
Middle Eastern national
- AshkenaziJews of European descent
- SephardicOf Iberian Jewish origin
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
Yiddish · Ladino · heritage · ancestry · lineage · tribe · Israelite · Semitic · ancestry · genealogy
klezmer
Traditional Ashkenazi folk music
gefilte · borscht · knish · pastrami · deli · Yiddish · shtetl · kibbutz · hora · dreidel
bigotry
Intolerance toward differing views
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
scapegoat · slur · hate crime · persecution · libel · conspiracy theory · Holocaust denial · exclusion · propaganda · caricature
- Orthodox JewStrictly Torah-observant person
- jew harpPlucked lamellophone held orally
- Reform JewLiberal branch adherent
- secular JewCulturally Jewish, not devout
- Conservative JewCentrist Jewish movement follower
- wandering JewTrailing striped houseplant