Meaning of Judenhetze | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Anti-Semitism; chiefly in the context of Central or Eastern Europe, from the late 19th century until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945:
   countable, historical, uncountable, usually
2. Jew-baiting (the harassment, vilification or provocation of Jews, or incitement against them, for anti-Semitic reasons)
   countable, historical, uncountable, usually
3. A societal mood of systemic and pervasive anti-Semitism.
   historical, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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 time that could perfume the prosy air of nowadays.”

“Reluctantly, Lewis sent Gutstadt the DAV investigators’ earliest reports, along with the FNG membership and mailing lists they had been given, the names of the SA members in Los Angeles, a copy of the SA drill regulations handbook published by the Nazi Party in Germany, and photostatic copies of the SA marching songs sung by the brown shirts in Germany that were “filled with ‘Judenhetze’” (Jew-baiting).”

“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.”

“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.”

“And Judenhetze is the course of time; We were rebellious, all but Abraham, And skulked like Jonah, angry at the gourd. Our days are captives in the minds of kings, We stand in tens disjointed on the world Grieving the ribbon of a coast we hated.”

“Perhaps it is precisely because South Africa’s race problems have assumed such overwhelming proportions that attitudes toward the Jew have received so little academic attention. South Africa, after all, has not been immune to Judeophobia or, in the parlance of late nineteenth-century Europe, “Judenhetze.””

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