Sartre begins by defining antisemitism as characterized by certain opinions: attributing 'all or part of his own misfortunes and those of his country to the presence of Jewish elements in the community. A phenomenon described as antijudaism, by intellectual historian David Nirenberg in citing this essay and its salient observation that 'if the Jew did not exist, the anti-semite would invent him.' Definition of Antisemitism The essay deals not with racist hatred of living Jews, but with Judaism and imaginary Jews as a category of fantasy projected in the thought of the anti-semite. According to Sartre, antisemitism (and hate more broadly) is, among other things, a way by which the middle class lay claim to the nation in which they reside, and an oversimplified conception of the world in which the antisemite sees 'not a conflict of interests but the damage an evil power causes society.' It explains the etiology of hate by analyzing antisemitic hate. The essay analyzes of four character types and their interactions: The anti-Semite, the democrat, the authentic Jew, and the inauthentic Jew.

The full text was then published in 1946. The first part of the essay, 'The Portrait of the Antisemite', was published in December 1945 in Les Temps modernes. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.Īnti-Semite and Jew ( French: Réflexions sur la question juive, 'Reflections on the Jewish Question') is an essay about antisemitism written by Jean-Paul Sartre shortly after the Liberation of Paris from German occupation in 1944.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Dutch Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.

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