REL 2120 Study Guide - Antisemitism, Sui Generis
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Of its own kind/genus or unique in its own characteristics : oldest prejudice in human history, attested even in countries with no jewish population, proven to be impossible to eradicate, 1290 king edward expelled all jews from england, more virulent than any other prejudice, routinely has become an obsession, easily transmutes into physical violence and murder, uniquely chimerical (produced by a wild imagination) Why: jewish resistance to religion & deities other than their own, unbending ideas of morality & fully equal justice, jewish refusal to participate in pagan worship, non jewish view of judaism as austere, frightful, proclivity to blame the victim, jewish meant different , continuing presence of jews in the world.
