Jewmania

Noun

Jewmania (uncountable)

1. Rabid anti-Semitism.
   • Hungarian Student Riots - A Symptom of Jewmania.1927 November 11, “The Week in Review”, in The American Hebrew, volume 121, number 27, page 949
   • It is "Jewmania” instead of "witchmania" which rages in the twentieth century.1945 March 28, The Lutheran - Volume 27, page 5
2. An obsession with Jewish history and traditions.
   • When Herman Melvilled visited , he was fascinated yet repulsed by the 'contagion' of American Christian millenarianism – 'this preposterous Jewmania', he called it, 'half-melancholy, half-farcical'.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 406