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allosemitic

allosemitic adjective: of or pertaining to allosemitism; seeing and treating Jews as alien.

Adjective

allosemitic (comparative more allosemitic, superlative most allosemitic)

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

Forms of allosemitic

comparativemore allosemitic
superlativemost allosemitic

Questions about allosemitic

What does allosemitic mean?
Allosemitic means of or pertaining to allosemitism; seeing and treating Jews as alien.
What part of speech is allosemitic?
Allosemitic is an adjective.

Words near allosemitic in the dictionary

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  2. alloscuta
  3. alloscutum
  4. allose
  5. allosecurinine
  6. allosemitic
  7. allosemitism
  8. allosensitisation
  9. allosensitisations
  10. allosensitised
  11. allosensitization

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