anti-Semitism

[an-tee-sem-i-tiz-uh m, an-tahy-]

noun

discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.

Origin of anti-Semitism

First recorded in 1880–85

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Related Words for anti-semitism

racism, racialism

Examples from the Web for anti-semitism

Contemporary Examples of anti-semitism

Is it anti-Semitism, or are less insidious cultural forces at work?
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America?
Emily Shire
January 7, 2015
While anti-Semitism in the United States is thankfully at all time lows, it was not always like this.
Muslims & Jews Unite vs. Abercrombie & Fitch
Dean Obeidallah
December 16, 2014
We also saw the ugly face of Anti-Semitism rise again, primarily in Europe.
Summer 2014 Was the Worst Ever
Dean Obeidallah
August 29, 2014
Flagrant anti-Semitism fell out of favor and was replaced by a closeted, unspoken bigotry.
Superman Is Jewish: The Hebrew Roots of America's Greatest Superhero
Rich Goldstein
August 16, 2014
While American nativism and anti-Semitism declined after World War II, so did the overt Jewishness of Superman.
Superman Is Jewish: The Hebrew Roots of America's Greatest Superhero
Rich Goldstein
August 16, 2014

Historical Examples of anti-semitism

Anti-Semitism would be simply ridiculous if it were not so terribly in earnest.
Zionism and Anti-Semitism
Max Simon Nordau
Another of Chesterton's intellectual aberrations is his anti-Semitism.
G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study
Julius West
They were also infected by the growing spirit of anti-Semitism.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1
Various
Anti-Semitism and the American ideal can never be reconciled.
The Jew and American Ideals
John Spargo
We shall discuss it fully in the chapter on the causes of Anti-Semitism.
The Jewish State
Theodor Herzl

Word Origin and History for anti-semitism

anti-Semitism

also antisemitism, 1881, from German Antisemitismus, first used by Wilhelm Marr (1819-1904) German radical, nationalist and race-agitator, who founded the Antisemiten-Liga in 1879; see anti- + Semite.

Not etymologically restricted to anti-Jewish theories, actions, or policies, but almost always used in this sense. Those who object to the inaccuracy of the term might try Hermann Adler's Judaeophobia (1882). Anti-Semitic (also antisemitic) and anti-Semite (also antisemite) also are from 1881, like anti-Semitism they appear first in English in an article in the "Athenaeum" of Sept. 31, in reference to German literature.

anti-semitism in Culture

anti-Semitism

[(an-tee-sem-uh-tiz-uhm, an-teye-sem-uh-tiz-uhm)]

Prejudice or hatred against Jews (see also Jews), a Semitic race. (See Arab-Israeli conflict and Nazis.)