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noun
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)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable, usually
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable, usually
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History
Unadapted borrowing from German Judenhetze (literally “Jew-baiting”), from Jude (“Jew”) + Hetze (“baiting; agitating; rabble-rousing; witch-hunting”).
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
