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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Jew/ʤuː/

▶noun a member of the people whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins to the ancient Hebrew people of Israel.

– origin ME: from OFr. juiu, via L. from Gk Ioudaios, via Aramaic from Heb. yĕhūḏī, from yĕhūḏāh ‘Judah’.

'Jew' also found in these Oxford entries:

Ashkenazi - Black Jew - goy - Hebrew - Israelite - Jew's ear - Jew's harp - Judaism - kike - Litvak - mohel - Reform Judaism - refusenik - sabra - Sephardi - succah - wandering Jew - Yemenite - Yid

Forum discussions with the word(s) "Jew" in the title:

He is Jewish / He is a Jew
Jew's blood / Jewish ancestry
kick me - jew me - kike me
Practicing Jew

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