Date:  Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:16:09 EST

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Subject: Re: Semitic languages and peoples; Anti-Semites



I have information, but not a citation. Sorry. Maybe you

can track this down.



What I remember is reading recently (that is, probably in 1996),

that the terms "anti-Semite" and "anti-Semitism" were deliberate

coinages by a Jew-hater who hoped to make his prejudice sound

more respectable, and that the coinage occurred in Germany

about a century ago. Good luck, Rick.



Vicki Rosenzweig

vr%acmcr.uucp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]murphy.com | rosenzweig[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]acm.org

New York, NY