Jew

Example Sentences

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“Nothing in the world,” he wrote that year, “could make a poet give up poetry, even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

It was in her classroom at Tikvah, the Jewish foundation Ms. Wisse has called home since 2014, where I first heard the idea that Josef K. was a Jew.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Yet at the same time this weekend the ritual will feel different for every Jew in Britain.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Tom, whose family fled Nazi Germany when he was a boy, is a thoroughly assimilated, tennis-obsessed Englishman who brings his own more conciliatory perspective to the discussion as a British Jew.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

Brian has a new dimension: he is a Jew.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood