Anti-Semites
the modern opponents of the Jews in Russia, Rumania, Hungary, and eastern Germany. An Anti-Semitic League was formed in Berlin in 1881 to restrict the liberty of Jews in Germany. The Emperor interfered to stop the cowardly persecution, but not before thousands of Jews had left the country. The persecution in Russia assumed a more brutal character than in Germany, and thousands of Jews fled to the United States, Spain, and elsewhere. In Hungary violent anti-Jewish riots occurred at Pesth, Zala, and elsewhere, which were not brought to an end until martial law was proclaimed.
There is a strong anti-Semitic party feeling in France which the Dreyfus affair served to foster, and it is growing in some quarters in England. Anti-Semitism has come to the fore again in the form of riots and attacks on Jews and their property as a result of the World War. This was especially true in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, and certain sections of Germany.