auto-antisemite

English

Alternative forms

• auto-anti-Semite

Etymology

From auto- (“self”) +‎ antisemite.

Noun

auto-antisemite (plural auto-antisemites)

1. (rare) Synonym of self-hating Jew
   • 1987, Max Reinhardt Archive, State University of New York at Binghamton (publisher), Modern International Drama‎^[1], volumes 21-23, page 68:

     Otto's become an auto-antisemite, refuses to enter a tavern or a coffee house and walks around pale, tormented, and gloomy like a Jesuit priest.

   • 1991, World Jewish Congress, Survey of Jewish Affairs‎^[2], page 50:

     auto-antisemites including the scholar Dan Miron (whose stand has altered somewhat following the Gulf War), Natan Zach, poet and critic, and the playwright Yehoshua Sobol, author of Ghetto, among many other plays.

   • 2005, "Moshe Carmilly" Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History, Studia Judaica‎^[3], page 212:

     Rosa, we are made to understand, was a snob and auto-anti-Semite long before the war.

Derived terms

• autoantisemitism