Jewry
The Jewish people
Jewry is the Jewish people collectively, or a community of Jews in a particular place or time: medieval Jewry, American Jewry.
The term is somewhat formal and appears most often in historical or sociological contexts.
Historically, a Jewry was also a Jewish quarter or ghetto in a city.
Festival of liberation
- Yom KippurAnnual Jewish atonement observance
- Rosh HashanahJewish calendar's start
- HanukkahEight-day Jewish celebration
- SukkotJewish autumn harvest commemoration
Purim · Shavuot · seder · shofar · menorah · dreidel · latke · gelt
Judaism's core scripture
- TalmudRabbinic law compilation
- synagogueJewish house of worship
- rabbiJewish spiritual leader
- mitzvahJewish law commandment
kosher · Shabbat · halacha · prayer · worship · cantor · minyan · Kabbalah
Banishment from homeland
- dispersionScattering across space
- SephardimJews of Iberian origin
- AshkenazimJews of European descent
- aliyahTorah reading summons
emigration · immigration · refugees · homeland · displacement · exodus · Babylonian · resettlement
Ancient Judean mountain fortress
- EssenesAncient ascetic Hebrew sect
- HasidismDevout mystical branch of Judaism
- Second TempleRebuilt Jerusalem sanctuary
- MaccabeesJudean revolt leaders
Zionism · pogrom · Holocaust · Shoah · ghetto · expulsion · Inquisition · emancipation
Passover
Festival of liberation
- Yom KippurAnnual Jewish atonement observance
- Rosh HashanahJewish calendar's start
- HanukkahEight-day Jewish celebration
Sukkot · Purim · Shavuot · seder · shofar · menorah · dreidel · latke · gelt · matzah
Torah
Judaism's core scripture
mitzvah · kosher · Shabbat · halacha · prayer · worship · cantor · minyan · Kabbalah · mezuzah
exile
Banishment from homeland
- dispersionScattering across space
- SephardimJews of Iberian origin
- AshkenazimJews of European descent
aliyah · emigration · immigration · refugees · homeland · displacement · exodus · Babylonian · resettlement · pogrom
Masada
Ancient Judean mountain fortress
- EssenesAncient ascetic Hebrew sect
- HasidismDevout mystical branch of Judaism
- Second TempleRebuilt Jerusalem sanctuary
Maccabees · Zionism · pogrom · Holocaust · Shoah · ghetto · expulsion · Inquisition · emancipation · Dreyfus
Yiddish
Ashkenazi Jewish language
bagel · challah · gefilte · knish · pastrami · borscht · tzimmes · mazel tov · chutzpah · mensch
- Jewish customsTraditional practices of Judaism
- Jewish holidayHebrew calendar observance
- Jewish deliTraditional kosher-style restaurant
- Jewish lawReligious legal code of Judaism
- Jewish communityLocal Hebrew religious population
- Jewish cultureTraditions of the Hebrews