Words
Where this hall's record is missing: thin coverage, events mentioned but not yet added, and evidence that exists but is withheld.
Open and sealed
Thin record
1781 to 1859The older words, before 1860
German had older words for hatred of Jews, such as Judenhass. What they were, and when the new word displaced them, is not on the timeline yet.
Missing a language
From 1860The word in Arabic and Hebrew
How Arabic writing renders the word (معاداة السامية) and Hebrew (אנטישמיות), when each language took it up, and the argument made in Arabic that Arabs are Semites too. None of it is on the timeline yet.
Thin record
1882 to 2014The word from 1882 to 2014
How the word spread into other languages and politics, its use under Nazi rule, and the arguments over it after 1945 are barely recorded here. The 1942 letter to Rashid Ali is the only event so far.
The longest silences
Stretches of a lane with no recorded event, widest first.
78 years with nothing in Origins, between Schlözer names the “Semitic” languages and Steinschneider writes of “antisemitische Vorurteile”.
72 years with nothing in Use & spelling, between A Nazi race official tells Rashid Ali the word is aimed at Jews alone and IHRA asks for “antisemitism” without a hyphen.
18 years with nothing in Origins, between Steinschneider writes of “antisemitische Vorurteile” and The word “Antisemitismus” enters German politics.
5 years with nothing in Use & spelling, between IHRA asks for “antisemitism” without a hyphen and A call to say “Jew hatred” instead.
5 years with nothing in Definitions, between IHRA adopts its working definition and The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism.
4 years with nothing in Use & spelling, between The AP Stylebook drops the hyphen and A US executive order spells it “Anti-Semitism”.
Flag a blank
Sign in or create an account to flag a gap.