anti-Judaism
anti-Judaism noun: opposition to Judaism.
Noun
anti-Judaism (uncountable)
- Opposition to Judaism.
- And yet they did not form Anti-Judaism, or Anti-Gentileism, nor yet anti-sin societies, but acted upon the principle that truth was omnipotent against errour, and therefore “preached Jesus and the resurrection.” as the all-sufficient moral engine for the conversion of the world.1836, David Meredith Reese, “Thoughts on the present aspect of the Roman Catholic Controversy”, in Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon, editors, Literary and Theological Review, volume 3, New York: Ezra...
- Anti-Judaism, as defined here, differs in several crucial respects from its more familiar cousin, antisemitism. Most fundamentally, the discourse of antisemitism asserts that Jews are inherently different from non-Jews in negative ways, while the discourse of anti-Judaism urges audiences to...2023 October 1, David M. Freidenreich, Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy, Oakland, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 4
- Synonym of anti-Semitism.
- Synonyms:
- anti-Semitism
Synonyms of anti-Judaism
Forms of anti-Judaism
| alternative form | antijudaism |
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Origin of anti-Judaism
From anti- + Judaism.
Questions about anti-Judaism
- What does anti-Judaism mean?
- Anti-Judaism means opposition to Judaism.
- What part of speech is anti-Judaism?
- Anti-Judaism is a noun.
Words near anti-Judaism in the dictionary
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