Date:  Mon, 4 Mar 1996 14:42:50 -0600

From:  Rick Arons <RARONS[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TINY.COMPUTING.CSBSJU.EDU>

Subject: Semitic languages and peoples; Anti-Semites



Does anyone have any information on the origin and development of the term

"anti-Semite" to refer only to someone who has an irrational fear or

hatred of Jews, and not of Arabic-speaking people, for example? Many thanks.



Rick Arons

Modern and Classical Languages

St. John's University

Collegeville, MN 56321