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Judenstern
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English
thumb|A French Judenstern.
Etymology
en de Judenstern, literally "Jew-star".
Noun
en countable historical A yellow badge forced upon ordinary Jews (and many legally ‘Jewish’ people) in Western Axis states. 20th c.
en yellow star
en Jewish badge yellow badge yellow patch
en rouelle
en Barend van Dyk Van Niekerk The African Image (Négritude) in the Work of Léopold Sédar Senghor https://books.google.com/books?id=VP1cAAAAMAAJ Balkema (A.A.) 1970 107 https://books.google.com/books?id=VP1cAAAAMAAJ&q=Judenstern For the exiled black man who had to bear his skin — the symbol of rejection — like a "Judenstern," there could be no escape.
en Ingrid U. Cowan The Shadow of the Hakenkreuz https://books.google.com/books?id=iQuPAAAAQBAJ March 18 2011 Xlibris Corporation 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=iQuPAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA3 978-1-4568-4696-1 A yellow Star of David—a Judenstern, as the Germans called it—with the word “Jude” embroidered in the center was on the left side of her coat just below her collar bone..
en Gerhard Falk The German Jews in America: A Minority within a Minority https://books.google.com/books?id=d3ZAAwAAQBAJ April 1 2014 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 46 https://books.google.com/books?id=d3ZAAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA46 9780761863069 Therefore, Jews had to walk wherever they tried to go, although the wearing of a “Judenstern” or Jewish star on every outer garment was enforced at pain of death.
German
de:
Etymology
de :af Jude<t:Jew> -n- Stern<t:star>
From de Jude -n- Stern Jew star.
Pronunciation
de [ˈjuːdn̩ˌʃtɛʁn]
de Ju den stern
de De-Judenstern.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
m,(e)s
historical en yellow badge (in Nazi-controlled states, a cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments)
Declension
m,(e)s
See also
de Davidstern m Star of David
Further reading
de Clothing Judaism Nazism