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allosemitism

allosemitism noun: the belief or attitude that Jewish people are significantly different from the mainstream and should therefore be treated differently.

Noun

allosemitism (uncountable)

  1. The belief or attitude that Jewish people are significantly different from the mainstream and should therefore be treated differently.
    • I suggest that the allosemitism endemic to western Civilization is to a decisive extent the legacy of Christendom. The Christian Church's struggle with the inassimilable, yet indispensable modality of the Jews bequeathed to later ages two factors crucial to the emergence and self-perpetuation of...1998, Bryan Cheyette, Laura Marcus, Modernity, Culture, and 'the Jew', →ISBN, page 148
    • While it may not be entirely accurate to call these phrases 'anti-Jewish tinged gibes', as the Jewish Telegraph reporter did, they are nonetheless characterised by allosemitism's construction of Jewish difference.2006, Jewish Culture and History - Volume 8, Issues 1-3, page 15

Examples of allosemitism in a sentence

  • I suggest that the allosemitism endemic to western Civilization is to a decisive extent the legacy of Christendom.1998, Bryan Cheyette, Laura Marcus, Modernity, Culture, and 'the Jew', →ISBN, page 148:
  • The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew.2020 January 28, Mairov Zonszein, “Christian Zionist philo-Semitism is driving Trump’s Israel policy”, in The Washington Post:

Origin of allosemitism

From allo- + Semite + -ism, analogously to antisemitism and philosemitism.

Questions about allosemitism

What does allosemitism mean?
Allosemitism means the belief or attitude that Jewish people are significantly different from the mainstream and should therefore be treated differently.
How do you use allosemitism in a sentence?
I suggest that the allosemitism endemic to western Civilization is to a decisive extent the legacy of Christendom.
What part of speech is allosemitism?
Allosemitism is a noun.

Words near allosemitism in the dictionary

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

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