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Re: CHAT: Anti-Semitism

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, April 11, 2004, 18:35
David Barrow scripsit:

> anti-Semitism - 1881, from Ger. Antisemitismus, first used by Wilhelm > Marr in 1880, from anti- + Semite (q.v.). Not etymologically > restricted to anti-Jewish theories, actions or policies, but almost > always used in this sense. Those who object to the inaccuracy of the > term might try H. Adler's Judaeophobia (1882).
For this reason, some people (including me) use the spelling "Antisemitism" in English as well, to indicate that it is an indecomposable term: there is after all no "pro-Semitism" to which it could be opposed as a coherent philosophy, though the term "philo-Semitism" is occasionally found meaning simply "person who likes Jews as a group". -- Andrew Watt on Microsoft: John Cowan "Never in the field of human computing jcowan@reutershealth.com has so much been paid by so many http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to so few!" (pace Winston Churchill) http://www.reutershealth.com

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