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auto-antisemite en · NOUN

Etymology

From auto- (“self”) + antisemite.

Meanings

1. (rare) Synonym of self-hating Jew
   • Rosa, we are made to understand, was a snob and auto-anti-Semite long before the war. 2005, "Moshe Carmilly" Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History, Studia Judaica, page 212:
   • auto-antisemites including the scholar Dan Miron (whose stand has altered somewhat following the Gulf War), Natan Zach, poet and critic, and the playwright Yehoshua Sobol, author of Ghetto, among many other plays. 1991, World Jewish Congress, Survey of Jewish Affairs, page 50:
   • Otto's become an auto-antisemite, refuses to enter a tavern or a coffee house and walks around pale, tormented, and gloomy like a Jesuit priest. 1987, Max Reinhardt Archive, State University of New York at Binghamton (publisher), Modern International Drama, volumes 21-23, page 68:

Forms

Deriveds

autoantisemitism

Synonyms

self-hating Jew