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

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

In describing Jonathan Miller, he writes that “among practicing Jews, Miller wasn’t truly a Jew, but he considered himself Jewish nonetheless.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

It was treyf, not kosher for a Jew to eat.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride