Judenhetze

Noun

Judenhetze (usually uncountable, plural Judenhetzen)

1. (countable, historical, uncountable, usually) Jew-baiting (the harassment, vilification or provocation of Jews, or incitement against them, for anti-Semitic reasons)
   • The Vienna New Free Press, of Oct. 10, reports as follows: On the 26th ult., a persecution of the Jews (Judenhetze, literally Jew-bait) took place in Gorlice (Galicia). A number of peasants forced their way into the synagogue during Divine Service, and commenced maltreating the Jews assembled there.1870 December 23, “Echoes from the Continent”, in The Hebrew, number 368, San Fransisco, page 1
   • The whole affair was a sort of revival of the Judenhetzen of the middle ages, so notorious in Germany. […] The war was in the end nothing uncommon; there ever have been wars, and all but philosophers say there ever will be; but a dear, good old Judenhetze was one of the choicest whiffs of a poetic...1873 April 7, “Riots at Stuttgardt”, in The Morning Post, number 31440, London, page 6
2. (historical, usually) A societal mood of systemic and pervasive anti-Semitism.
   • The Polish or Russian nationality of the vast majority of these foreigners is an equally undisputed fact and a natural consequence of the recent outbreak of Judenhetze in Russian Poland and the adjoining territories.1889, Beatrice Potter, chapter III (The Jewish Community), part III, in Charles Booth, editor, Labour and Life of the People, 2nd edition, volume I, page 577
   • How the offspring of these mixed marriages is faring during the progress of the present “Judenhetze” I do not know. But to the fanatical advocates of a purely “Nordic” Germany they must present a rather difficult problem.1933 March 14, Ernest Lesser, “Jews in Germany”, in The Times, number 46392, London, page 10