The Deep Roots of Anti-Semitism in European Society - Manfred Gerstenfeld. Jewish Political Studies Review 17:1-2 (Spring 2005) Manfred Gerstenfeld The resurgence of European anti-Semitism after the Holocaust suggests that it has deep roots in society.
It has been fostered in a great variety of ways by so many, for such a long time, in all European countries that one might consider this form of hate and discrimination as inherent to European culture and a part of European "values. " New European anti-Semitism often originates from a young age, which indicates that it is an anti-Semitism of the future rather than of the past.
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The following article is reprinted with permission from A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People edited by Eli Barnavi and published by Schocken Books. In a pamphlet published in 1873, Der Sieg des Judentums uber das Germanentum ("The Victory of Judaism over Germandom"), Wilhelm Marr, the German political agitator, coined the term "antisemitism. " Fortuitous though it may have been, the coincidence of the invention of the word and the manifestations of what could be considered early modern anti-Semitism was certainly very symbolic. We Also Recommend.