Judenhetze

Meanings

1. Anti-Semitism; chiefly in the context of Central or Eastern Europe, from the late 19th century until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945:
2. Jew-baiting (the harassment, vilification or provocation of Jews, or incitement against them, for anti-Semitic reasons)
3. A societal mood of systemic and pervasive anti-Semitism.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Judenhetze (literally “Jew-baiting”), from Jude (“Jew”) + Hetze (“baiting; agitating; rabble-rousing; witch-hunting”).