ABSTRACT
Antisemitic phenomena are usually qualified more particularly: people speak, for instance, of economic antisemitism. The adjective seems to indicate a classification. This chapter focuses on religious antisemitism, economic antisemitism, political antisemitism, social antisemitism, cultural antisemitism, and racial antisemitism. It also focuses on the seemingly most paradoxical but current expression: "Jewish antisemitism", meaning the hatred shown by Jews against other Jews. Religious antisemitism is the name for the enmity supposedly aimed at the Jews in their quality of followers of what is sometimes described as the Israelitic persuasion. The expression "political antisemitism" has two meanings which may be distinguished rather clearly. In the first place it is used to indicate antisemitism issuing from governments and authorities. Political antisemitism in the sense of legal and administrative persecution has many non-Jewish parallels. Hated minority groups are deprived of their rights and persecuted throughout the world; in fact, the problem has a permanent actuality of its own.
