Rend a szavakban: az antiszemitizmus és a zsidó népirtás a lexikonok tükrében (1889–1948)
Order in the Words: Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Genocide in the Lexicons (1889–1948)

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the question of anti-Semitism through the dictionaries of lexicons as repositories of popular knowledge, from the perspective of how the concept of anti-Semitism has changed over 60 years of lexicon production and how genocide has left its mark on post-war dictionaries. The concept of political anti-Semitism, which emerged in the 19th century, appears in Hungarian lexicography at the end of the century in the crossfire of different interpretations and meanings. However, anti-Semitism first appeared as a historical concept in the 1910s, with reference to the anti-Semitic tendencies of the time. Between the two world wars, the spirit of the times reached the lexicons with, among other things, the ‚Jewish conquest’. The lexicons published after the Second World War were clearly influenced by the war. One linked genocide with anti-Semitism and treated it as a separate historical event, while the other offered a complex, historical and multi-causal explanation for the emergence of anti-Semitism.

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