Judeopessimism
Judeopessimism noun: 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.
Noun
Judeopessimism (uncountable)
- 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
Forms of Judeopessimism
| alternative form (rare) | Judeo-pessimism |
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Origin of Judeopessimism
From Judeo- + pessimism, by analogy with Afro-pessimism.
Questions about Judeopessimism
- What does Judeopessimism mean?
- Judeopessimism means 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.
- What part of speech is Judeopessimism?
- Judeopessimism is a noun.
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