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Judeo-pessimism

Judeo-pessimism is the alternative form of Judeopessimism.

Meaning of Judeopessimism

Noun

Judeopessimism (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) The tendency to view antisemitism as constitutive of human civilization; summarizing Jews as eternally doomed to live in substandard conditions, such as always being surrounded by a hostile population.
    • This brief analysis of Berlin’s The Remnant of Israel, confronting the new term “antisemitism” and its meaning, points to some examples of what I am calling Judeopessimism, which makes claims about antisemitism that are akin to the political ontology of anti-Blackness that we find in some...2024 May 15, Shaul Magid, “Judeopessimism: Antisemitism, History, and Critical Race Theory*”, in Harvard Theological Review, volume 117, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 387

Questions about Judeo-pessimism

What is Judeo-pessimism the alternative form of?
Judeo-pessimism is the alternative form of Judeopessimism.

Words near Judeo-pessimism in the dictionary

  1. Judeo-Islamo-Christian
  2. Judeo-Italian
  3. Judeo-Masonic
  4. Judeo-Masonry
  5. Judeo-Persian
  6. Judeo-pessimism
  7. Judeo-Provençal
  8. Judeo-Spanish
  9. Judeo-Tat
  10. Judeocentric
  11. Judeocentrism

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