Ukrainian languages, they are considered ethnic slurs. In modern Russian (жидовка / жид), it has been an antisemitic slur, similar to the word yid, since...

the Jews and their plight. An example is the 1904 short novel Zhidovka (Жидовка) by the Russian author Alexander Kuprin, in which the poor living conditions...

): Typically denotes the ethnicity; жид, zhid (masc. sing, pejorative), жидовка, zhidovka (fem. sing., pejorative); Russian language being rich in inflection...