Did Wikipedia remove the word "antisemitism" from the Jewish American literature article?

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When did the Jewish American literature article stop using the word "antisemitism"?

The word appeared 2 times in the opening at its peak in 2010. It is absent from today's opening, the part search engines quote and AI systems train on, checked against the live article on 2026-08-01.

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What did Wikipedia remove from the Jewish American literature article?

The opening as it read in 2010

Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States . It encompasses traditions of writing in English , primarily, as well as in other languages, the most important of which has been Yiddish . While critics and authors generally acknowledge the notion of a distinctive corpus and practice of writing about Jewishness in America , many writers resist being pigeonholed as 'Jewish voices'. Also, many nominally Jewish writers cannot be considered representative of Jewish American literature, one example is Isaac Asimov. Beginning with the memoirs and petitions composed by the Sephardic immigrants who arrived in America during the mid 17th century, Jewish American writing grew over the subsequent centuries to flourish in other genres as well, including fiction , poetry , and drama . Gertrude Stein became one of the most influential prose-stylists of the 20th century. It reached some of its most mature expression in the 20th century "Jewish American novels " of Henry Roth , Saul Bellow , J.D. Salinger , Norman Mailer , Bernard Malamud , Chaim Potok , and Philip Roth . Their work explored the conflicting pulls between secular society and Jewish tradition which were acutely felt by the immigrants who passed through Ellis Island and by their children and grandchildren. More recent authors like Paul Auster , Michael Chabon , Jonathan Safran Foer and Art Spiegelman have continued to examine dilemmas of identity in their work, turning their attention especially to the Holocaust and the trends of both ongoing assimilation and cultural rediscovery exhibited by younger generations of American Jews. Modern Jewish American novels often contain (a few or many) Jewish characters and address issues and themes of importance to Jewish American society such as assimilation , Zionism / Israel , and Anti-Semitism , along with the recent phenomenon known as " New Anti-Semitism ." Magazines such as The New Yorker have proved to be instrumental in exposing many Jewish American writers to a wider reading public.¹

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The opening as it stood in 2015 7 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear

Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States . It encompasses traditions of writing in English , primarily, as well as in other languages, the most important of which has been Yiddish . While critics and authors generally acknowledge the notion of a distinctive corpus and practice of writing about Jewishness in America , many writers resist being pigeonholed as 'Jewish voices'. Also, many nominally Jewish writers cannot be considered representative of Jewish American literature, one example being Isaac Asimov .

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The opening as it stood in 2020

Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States . It encompasses traditions of writing in English , primarily, as well as in other languages, the most important of which has been Yiddish . While critics and authors generally acknowledge the notion of a distinctive corpus and practice of writing about Jewishness in America , many writers resist being pigeonholed as "Jewish voices." Also, many nominally Jewish writers cannot be considered representative of Jewish American literature, one example being Isaac Asimov .

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The opening as it stood in 2025

Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States . It encompasses traditions of writing in English , primarily, as well as in other languages, the most important of which has been Yiddish . While critics and authors generally acknowledge the notion of a distinctive corpus and practice of writing about Jewishness in America , many writers resist being pigeonholed as "Jewish voices." Also, many nominally Jewish writers cannot be considered representative of Jewish American literature, one example being Isaac Asimov . Modernism and speculative fiction are major focuses in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature.

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