Wilhelm Marr

And that becomes obviously impossible to escape.

In 1879, we get the word anti-semitism i think then anti-semitismus beginning to be popularized by this german agitator named wilhelm marr so previously you could convert out of a religion but you cannot convert out of a race that somebody else has assigned to you so the question is what will keep you safe

and the answer is a homeland um Because by this time, you're getting pretty fed up.

You know, it's been like the best part of 2,000 years.

They are not like us, end quote.

In 1879, a German publicist named Wilhelm Marr popularized the term anti-Semitism.

Marr argued that Jews could never be fully German no matter how much they assimilated.

Germans and Jews, he insisted, were locked in a racial struggle to the death over who would control society, and Marr worried that the Jews would win.

There was a guy living in the 1870s.

His name was Wilhelm Marr.

Wilhelm Marr, he coined the term anti-Semitism.

And just so that it should be very clear, anti-Semitism had nothing to do with Semitic peoples.

If you are an anti-Semite today, it doesn't have anything to do with antien- ancient Ugaritic speakers, okay? It means you hate Jews.

So we're going to note a couple of things.

Now, it is true that Wilhelm Marr.

did coin and popularize the term anti-Semitism in the year 1879.

True.

The Holocaust Museum confirms this fact, and so I would point you to my annotated bibliography if you want to find the resources on that.

However, Kahn overreaches by converting the coinage of a term into the birth of an ideology and then assigning a cult causation to the altar, which arrived in the year 1879.

No, the Holocaust Museum is equally clear that anti-Jewish hostility, nationalist exclusion, racial theories, and political anti-Semitic currents existed long before Wilhelm Marr coined the term anti-Semitism.

And so what Kahn is doing here is basically trying to make it look like out of the blue – Out of nowhere, without any other possible plausible explanation, antisemitism as a word appears for the first time in human history in the year 1879, which is also the year that the altar begins arriving in pieces in Berlin.

Antisemitism is modern.

It was coined and popularized by a German agitator, Wilhelm Marr, who lived from 1819 to 1904.

He needed a word that sounded scientific for a political movement against Jews, and he invented one.

The ancient world didn't have the word because the ancient world didn't have the concept in the form he was naming.