allosemitic
allosemitic adjective: of or pertaining to allosemitism; seeing and treating Jews as alien.
Adjective
allosemitic (comparative more allosemitic, superlative most allosemitic)
- 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
| comparative | more allosemitic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most 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.
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