Hatred of Jews is very old, but the words used to sanitize it are decidedly new because they are constantly evolving. Observing this evolution is one of the best methods of seeing how Jew-hatred transforms its appearance without changing its character.
The phenomenon’s origin point is likely 1879, when a struggling Hamburg journalist named Wilhelm Marr published a pamphlet called The Victory of Jewry over Germandom and founded the Antisemiten-Liga, the League of Antisemites, in Berlin. He is remembered today because he deployed the word Antisemitismus—“antisemitism.”
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