Meanings
comparative more allosemitic · superlative most allosemitic
- 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 2721 more example
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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