English

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Etymology

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From Jew +‎ -mania.

Noun

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Jewmania (uncountable)

  1. Rabid anti-Semitism.
    • 1927 November 11, “The Week in Review”, in The American Hebrew, volume 121, number 27, page 949:
      Hungarian Student Riots - A Symptom of Jewmania.
    • 1945 March 28, The Lutheran - Volume 27, page 5:
      It is "Jewmania” instead of "witchmania" which rages in the twentieth century.
    • 1946, Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo, Aftermath of Peace: Psychological Essays, page 54:
      "Jewmania” is for the primitive, paranoiac personality a nightmare besieging his would-be greatness.
  2. An obsession with Jewish history and traditions.
    • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 406:
      When Herman Melvilled visited , he was fascinated yet repulsed by the 'contagion' of American Christian millenarianism – 'this preposterous Jewmania', he called it, 'half-melancholy, half-farcical'.