Judenstern

Borrowed from German Judenstern.

Judenstern (plural Judensterns)

1. (countable, historical) A yellow badge forced upon ordinary Jews (and many legally ‘Jewish’ people) in Western Axis states. [20th c.]

   Synonym: yellow star

   • 1970, Barend van Dyk Van Niekerk, The African Image (Négritude) in the Work of Léopold Sédar Senghor‎^[1], Balkema (A.A.), page 107:

     For the exiled black man who had to bear his skin — the symbol of rejection — like a "Judenstern," there could be no escape.

   • 2011 March 18, Ingrid U. Cowan, The Shadow of the Hakenkreuz‎^[2], Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 3:

     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..

   • 2014 April 1, Gerhard Falk, The German Jews in America: A Minority within a Minority‎^[3], Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, →ISBN, page 46:

     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.

From Jude (“Jew”) +‎ -n- +‎ Stern (“star”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈjuːdn̩ˌʃtɛʁn]
• Hyphenation: Ju‧den‧stern

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Judenstern m (strong, genitive Judensternes or Judensterns, plural Judensterne)

1. (historical) yellow badge (in Nazi-controlled states, a cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments)

• Davidstern m (“Star of David”)

• “Judenstern” in Duden online