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antisemitism
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Noun1.antisemitism - the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish peopleantisemitism - the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people
racism - the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races


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Themes include: "How odd/of God/to chose/the Jews," the disturbing rise of secularism, and the anti-Christian roots of anti-Semitism.
Assmann, following Freud, assesses the roots of anti-Semitism in the conflict of the One God Idea (Moses) with idolatry (mostly Egyptian), a conflict continually exacerbated over the centuries and, according to Assman, one that found its full expression at the end of the seventeenth century under a dubious "Enlightenment.
00 Hardcover Primary sourcebook series D804 Hall has compiled an anthology of 100 primary documents relating to the Holocaust and arranged them in roughly chronological order from the roots of anti-Semitism to reflections and remembrance.
 
 
 
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