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Jewish flag
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English
Etymology
Sense 2 alludes to the stereotype of Jews as money-grubbing.
Noun
en Jewish flag
en 1944 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Jewish National Home in Palestine: Hearings Before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Seventy-Eighth Congress, Second Session 339 Jews in Palestine have appealed for the right to form a separate Jewish Army under a Jewish flag. This community, built up by the toil and sacrifice of decades is now in mortal danger and, as freemen everywhere, have not only the
en 2010-01-01 Ronald L. Eisenberg Jewish Traditions: A JPS Guide Jewish Publication Society 9780827610392 577 The combination of blue and white as the colors of the Jewish flag was derived from an 1860 poem (“Judah's Colors”) by Austrian Ludwig August Frankl, which explained that the blue symbolized “the splendors of the firmament,” and the
en 2021-05-04 Avinoam Patt The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt Wayne State University Press 9780814345177 As American Jews grappled with the questions of patriotism, Communism, and Zionism after the war, the blue Jewish flag would also be translated into dramatic representations of the Jewish struggle against oppression.
en US slang ethnic slur A dollar bill.
en 1921 Adventure 28 1-3 129 Four Jewish flags I blow, four lovely bucks.
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