What's the difference between hebraism and semitism?
Hebraism
Definition:
(n.) A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.
(n.) The type of character of the Hebrews.
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Semitism
Definition:
(n.) A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin.
Example Sentences:
(1) I did not - do not - quite understand how some are able to contemplate his anti-semitism with indifference.
(2) Despite the language of technocrats like Florian Philippot, the Front National is still the Front National, a party that’s racist, anti-semitic and extreme-right,” Sacha Ghozlan, of the Union of Jewish students of France, told Le Monde at the protest.
(3) 1 target of anti-Semitism in the journalistic world this year.
(4) In addition, all the defendants had been accused of support for the Muslim Brotherhood, a group associated with anti-semitism – although many say they had nothing to do with the brotherhood or the murder.
(5) Colborne said Salah had asked his legal team to take action against those in Britain who had made allegations of anti-semitism against him before his arrival.
(6) Her novel loosely uses Henry James's The Ambassadors as a platform from which to explore big themes such as anti-semitism and the postwar divergence in fortunes of Europe and America.
(7) The Kremlin insists that "radicals", including "anti-Semites, fascists and ultra-nationalists" staged a coup in Kiev – with murky western backing – and now continue to destabilize Ukraine.
(8) The novelist and critic Tom Bissell has described the protagonist's Jewish lawyer in 2002's Vice City as "an anti-Semitic parody of an anti-Semitic parody", while in the new game one of the main character's daughters has a tattoo that reads "skank", and one mission involves you helping a paparazzo capture a starlet's "low-hanging muff".
(9) He refers to a coup d’etat in Ukraine, says there were murders pogroms and lays the blame at nationalists, anti-semites and neo-Nazis.
(10) An anti-semitic comment is not really that, he says: it's just what he imagines an anti-semite might say.
(11) In a city where liberal 19th-century culture was menaced by anti-semitic populist politics - where Adolf Hitler wandered round bitterly nursing a sense of thwarted genius - the middle class escaped into hedonistic dreams, and invented modern sexuality.
(12) Freud's profound interest in classical civilization was established in childhood; he was particularly concerned with the struggle between Aryan Rome and Semitic Carthage, a conflict in which he identified with both sides.
(13) The opera was "anti-American, anti-semitic and anti-bourgeois".
(14) Anti-semitism continues to contribute to the general "climate".
(15) "We are therefore calling on you to ban Gabor Vona, the leader of the racist and anti-Semitic extremist party Jobbik, from entering the UK, as his politics of hate are simply not welcome here."
(16) Anti-semitism is rampant in much of the 'hypocritical' Middle East, the editor wrote, with Jewish rabbis depicted on prime-time Syrian TV as cannibals.
(17) In a court case in Paris this week, a French Jewish student union, backed by the country's biggest anti-racism groups, appealed to a judge to force Twitter to hand over personal details of users who had tweeted anti-semitic comments under the hashtags #UnBonJuif (a good Jew) and #UnJuifMort (a dead Jew), so the users could be prosecuted.
(18) His last PhD student was the lawyer Anthony Julius and it was (as Julius acknowledges), largely through Jacobson's tireless campaigning that Julius's TS Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form (1995), one of the most controversial critical books of the 90s, saw print.
(19) One critic, for example, in a very patient, and indeed in every respect but one a positively scrupulous, reading of one of Eliot's anti-semitic poems, "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar," glancingly commented, "the question whether [it is] anti-semitic is obviously not a pressing one".
(20) We are not tolerating anti-Semitism in any form whatsoever in our party."