The early Zionist pioneer Leon Pinsker , a professional physician , preferred the clinical-sounding term '' Judeophobia '' to antisemitism , which he regarded as a misnomer . The word '' Judeophobia '' first appeared in his pamphlet " Auto-Emancipation " , published anonymously in German in September 1882 , where it was described as an irrational fear or hatred of Jews . According to Pinsker , this irrational fear was an inherited predisposition . In the aftermath of the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938 , German propaganda minister Goebbels announced : " The German people is anti-Semitic . It has no desire to have its rights restricted or to be provoked in the future by parasites of the Jewish race . " After the 1945 victory of the Allies over Nazi Germany , and particularly after the full extent of the Nazi genocide against the Jews became known , the term " anti-Semitism " acquired pejorative connotations . This marked a full circle shift in usage , from an era just decades earlier when " Jew " was used as a pejorative term . Yehuda Bauer wrote in 1984 : " There are no anti-Semites in the world ... Nobody says , ' I am anti-Semitic . ' You can not , after Hitler . The word has gone out of fashion . " Antisemitism manifests itself in a variety of ways . René König mentions social antisemitism , economic antisemitism , religious antisemitism , and political antisemitism as examples . König points out that these different forms demonstrate that the " origins of anti-Semitic prejudices are rooted in different historical periods . " König asserts that differences in the chronology of different antisemitic prejudices and the irregular distribution of such prejudices over different segments of the population create " serious difficulties in the definition of the different kinds of anti-Semitism . " These difficulties may contribute to the existence of different taxonomies that have been developed to categorize the forms of antisemitism . The forms identified are substantially the same ; it is primarily the number of forms and their definitions that differ . Bernard Lazare identifies three forms of antisemitism : Christian antisemitism , economic antisemitism , and ethnologic antisemitism . William Brustein names four categories : religious , racial , economic and political . The Roman Catholic historian Edward Flannery distinguished four varieties of antisemitism : Louis Harap separates " economic antisemitism " and merges " political " and " nationalistic " antisemitism into " ideological antisemitism " . Harap also adds a category of " social antisemitism "
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