philo-Semitism

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philo-Semitism (uncountable)

  1. Interest in or appreciation of Jewish people, their history, or the influence of Judaism, particularly on the part of a gentile.
    • 1881 March 1, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 350:
      To an Englishman, German liberalism is a hybrid creature, lame of three legs and blind of one eye, and thus it is necessary to explain — if indeed explanation in its rational sense be possible — the position of the German Liberals in this matter of philo-Semitism.

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