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Judenhetze en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈjuːdənˌhɛtsə/
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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Judenhetze (literally “Jew-baiting”), from Jude (“Jew”) + Hetze (“baiting; agitating; rabble-rousing; witch-hunting”).

Meanings

1. (countable, historical, uncountable, usually) Anti-Semitism; chiefly in the context of Central or Eastern Europe, from the late 19th century until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945: ▸ Jew-baiting (the harassment, vilification or provocation of Jews, or incitement against them, for anti-Semitic reasons)
   • 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. 1870 December 23, “Echoes from the Continent”, in The Hebrew, number 368, San Fransisco, page 1:
   • 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). 2017, Laura B. Rosenzweig, Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58:
   • 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. 1873 April 7, “Riots at Stuttgardt”, in The Morning Post, number 31440, London, page 6:
2. (historical, uncountable, usually) Anti-Semitism; chiefly in the context of Central or Eastern Europe, from the late 19th century until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945: ▸ A societal mood of systemic and pervasive anti-Semitism.
   • 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. 1889, Beatrice Potter, chapter III (The Jewish Community), part III, in Charles Booth, editor, Labour and Life of the People, 2nd edition, volume I, page 577:
   • 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.” 1994, Milton Shain, The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa, →ISBN, →OCLC, page ix:
   • 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. 1933 March 14, Ernest Lesser, “Jews in Germany”, in The Times, number 46392, London, page 10:
   • 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. 1953, Karl Shapiro, “The Synagogue”, in Poems, 1940–1953, →OCLC, page 141:

Forms

Translations (2)

pl antysemityzm (societal mood) · de Judenhetze (societal mood)