Judenhetze

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Judenhetze (literally “Jew-baiting”), from Jude (“Jew”) +‎ Hetze (“baiting; agitating; rabble-rousing; witch-hunting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːdənˌhɛtsə/

Noun

Judenhetze (usually uncountable, plural Judenhetzen)

1. (chiefly historical) Anti-Semitism; chiefly in the context of Central or Eastern Europe, from the late 19th century until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945:
   1. (countable or uncountable) Jew-baiting (the harassment, vilification or provocation of Jews, or incitement against them, for anti-Semitic reasons)
      • 1870 December 23, “Echoes from the Continent”, in The Hebrew‎^[1], number 368, San Fransisco, page 1:

        The Vienna New Free Press, of Oct. 10, reports as follows: On the 26th ult., a persecution of the Jews (Judenhetze, literally Jew-bait) took place in Gorlice (Galicia). A number of peasants forced their way into the synagogue during Divine Service, and commenced maltreating the Jews assembled there.

      • 1873 April 7, “Riots at Stuttgardt”, in The Morning Post, number 31440, London, page 6:

        The whole affair was a sort of revival of the Judenhetzen of the middle ages, so notorious in Germany. […] The war was in the end nothing uncommon; there ever have been wars, and all but philosophers say there ever will be; but a dear, good old Judenhetze was one of the choicest whiffs of a poetic time that could perfume the prosy air of nowadays.

      • 2017, Laura B. Rosenzweig, Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58:

        Reluctantly, Lewis sent Gutstadt the DAV investigators’ earliest reports, along with the FNG membership and mailing lists they had been given, the names of the SA members in Los Angeles, a copy of the SA drill regulations handbook published by the Nazi Party in Germany, and photostatic copies of the SA marching songs sung by the brown shirts in Germany that were “filled with ‘Judenhetze’” (Jew-baiting).

   3. (uncountable) A societal mood of systemic and pervasive anti-Semitism.
      • 1889, Beatrice Potter, chapter III (The Jewish Community), part III, in Charles Booth, editor, Labour and Life of the People‎^[2], 2nd edition, volume I, page 577:

        The Polish or Russian nationality of the vast majority of these foreigners is an equally undisputed fact and a natural consequence of the recent outbreak of Judenhetze in Russian Poland and the adjoining territories.

      • 1933 March 14, Ernest Lesser, “Jews in Germany”, in The Times, number 46392, London, page 10:

        How the offspring of these mixed marriages is faring during the progress of the present “Judenhetze” I do not know. But to the fanatical advocates of a purely “Nordic” Germany they must present a rather difficult problem.

      • 1953, Karl Shapiro, “The Synagogue”, in Poems, 1940–1953‎^[3], →OCLC, page 141:

        And Judenhetze is the course of time;
        We were rebellious, all but Abraham,
        And skulked like Jonah, angry at the gourd.
        Our days are captives in the minds of kings,
        We stand in tens disjointed on the world
        Grieving the ribbon of a coast we hated.

      • 1994, Milton Shain, The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page ix:

        Perhaps it is precisely because South Africa’s race problems have assumed such overwhelming proportions that attitudes toward the Jew have received so little academic attention. South Africa, after all, has not been immune to Judeophobia or, in the parlance of late nineteenth-century Europe, “Judenhetze.”

Translations

Jew-baiting — see Jew-baiting

societal mood

• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Judenhetze f
• Polish: antysemityzm (pl) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

German

Etymology

From Jude (“Jew”) +‎ Hetze (“baiting; agitating; rabble-rousing; witch-hunting”), literally “Jew-baiting”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjuːdn̩ˌhɛt͡sə]

Noun

Judenhetze f (genitive Judenhetze, plural Judenhetzen)

1. Jew-baiting (the harassment, vilification or provocation of Jews, or incitement against them, for anti-Semitic reasons)
2. Judenhetze (a societal mood of systemic and pervasive anti-Semitism)

Declension

Declension of Judenhetze [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Judenhetze	die	Judenhetzen
genitive	einer	der	Judenhetze	der	Judenhetzen
dative	einer	der	Judenhetze	den	Judenhetzen
accusative	eine	die	Judenhetze	die	Judenhetzen

Descendants

• → English: Judenhetze