Judeophobia
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The term Judeophobia (also, Judaphobia) is used to describe a fear or irrational hatred of Jews. It was invented by Leon Pinsker and first appeared in his pamphlet Autoemancipation, published anonymously in German in September 1882.
As a professional physician, Pinsker preferred the clinical-sounding term Judeophobia to antisemitism (introduced three years earlier by Wilhelm Marr), which he regarded as a misnomer. Pinsker was convinced that pathological, irrational phobia may explain this millennia-old hatred:
"Judeophobia is a variety of demonopathy... this ghost is not disembodied like other ghosts but partakes of flesh and blood, must endure pain inflicted by the fearful mob who imagines itself endangered... To sum up then, to the living the Jew is a corpse, to the native a foreigner, to the homesteader a vagrant, to the proprietor a beggar, to the poor an exploiter and a millionaire, to the patriot a man without a country, for all a hated rival."
