allosemitic

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adjective

Of or pertaining to allosemitism; seeing and treating Jews as alien.

First used 20th c.Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveallosemitic (comparative more allosemitic, superlative most allosemitic)

comparative more allosemitic · superlative most allosemitic

  1. Of or pertaining to allosemitism; seeing and treating Jews as alien.First known use 20th c.

    If Jewish Self-Hatred was mainly concerned with the “Jew’s voice,” then The Jew’s Body extends this argument so as to create a seminal anatomy of antisemitic (or, more accurately, allosemitic) representations.

    1994, Bryan Cheyette, “Sander Gilman on Hatred and Self-Hatred”, in Jonathan Frankel, editor, Reshaping the Past: Jewish History and the Historians, volume X, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, page 272
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    He follows historian Henrik Rosengren and argues that we should differentiate between allosemitic and antisemitic perceptions, where the former would describe Jews as different but not necessarily in a negative or hostile way.

    2020, Karin Kvist Geverts, “Antisemitism in Sweden: A Neglected Field of Research?” (chapter 10), in Jonathan Adams, Cordelia Heß, editors, Antisemitism in the North (Religious Minorities in the North: History, Politics, and Culture; Volume 1), Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, pages 196–7
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