auto-antisemite

plural auto-antisemites · alternative auto-anti-Semite

1. rareSynonym of self-hating Jew

   Rosa, we are made to understand, was a snob and auto-anti-Semite long before the war.

   2005, "Moshe Carmilly" Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History, Studia Judaica, page 212

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   Otto's become an auto-antisemite, refuses to enter a tavern or a coffee house and walks around pale, tormented, and gloomy like a Jesuit priest.

   1987, Max Reinhardt Archive, State University of New York at Binghamton (publisher), Modern International Drama, volumes 21-23, page 68

   auto-antisemites including the scholar Dan Miron (whose stand has altered somewhat following the Gulf War), Natan Zach, poet and critic, and the playwright Yehoshua Sobol, author of Ghetto, among many other plays.

   1991, World Jewish Congress, Survey of Jewish Affairs, page 50

   Synonyms: self-hating Jew