anti-Jewish

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ Jewish.

Adjective

anti-Jewish (comparative more anti-Jewish, superlative most anti-Jewish)

1. Opposed to Jews.
   • 1953 April, Leon Poliakov, “An Opinion Poll on Anti-Jewish Measures in Vichy France”, in Jewish Social Studies, volume 15, number 2, →JSTOR, pages 135–150:

     Of the declared Antisemites, 66.32% (or 34.11% of the total replies) found the anti-Jewish measures to be insufficient.

   • 1966, Hayyim J. Cohen, “The Anti‐Jewish Farhūd in Baghdad, 1941”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 3, number 1, →DOI, →JSTOR:

     Twenty-five years have passed since the anti-Jewish farhud in Iraq.

Synonyms

• anti-Semitic, anti-semitic, antisemitic

Antonyms

• pro-Jewish

Derived terms

• anti-Jewishness

Related terms

• anti-Jewism
• Jewishness
• pro-Jewishness

Translations

opposed to Jews

• Czech: protižidovský (cs)
• Danish: jødefjendtlig, antisemitisk
• French: antijuif (fr), anti-juif (fr)
• German: antijüdisch (de), judenfeindlich (de), antijudaistisch
• Hungarian: zsidóellenes (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jødefiendtlig, antijødisk

  Nynorsk: jødefiendsleg, jødefiendtleg

• Polish: antyżydowski (pl)
• Portuguese: antijudaico, antijudeu
• Spanish: antijudío
• Swedish: judefientlig

See also

• anti-Zionism
• antigoyism, anti-goyism, anti-Goyism
• anti-Arabism, anti-Arab, anti-Arabic
• Arabophobia, Arabophobic, Arabophobe
• Islamophobia, Islamophobic, Islamophobe
• nationalism; tribalism; racism; xenophobia
• Judeophobia, Judeophobic, Judeophobe

References

• “anti-Jewish”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.