I'm not sure I understand the purport of any of Lee Lady's messages. But to the extent that facts may be useful: 1. The term "antisemitism" is usually defined in terms of prejudicial ideas, not physical violence. That was certainly the intent of the man who coined the term, Wilhelm Marr. However, Marr used the vocabulary of combat as the vehicle of his central metaphor. For instance, the title of the pamphlet where the term "Antisemitismus" first appears (Bern, 1879) is _Der Sieg des Judenthums ueber das Germanenthum_. In the light of subsequent events, it's hard not to remember that sometimes "Sieg" means "Sieg." 2. One author who has thought productively about the meanings of the word "antisemitism" is Leon (accent aigu) Poliakov. I could recommend his _History of Anti-Semitism_ and _The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalist Ideas in Europe_ (English translations 1965 and 1974). 3. Pound was hardly the only Christian (sensu lato) who had Jews on the brain, nor was his obsession the most severe. Henry Adams, for counterinstance, used to react to the word "Jew" in the same enraged way Pound reacted to the word "Roosevelt," and James Russell Lowell had a terror of Jews so great that it affected his sanity. Next to them, Pound appears almost temperate. Pound wasn't a Hitler, wasn't a Louis-Ferdinand Celine or a Robert Brasillach, wasn't even a John Quinn. And I'm not sure anybody on this list thinks he was. 4. But just as a matter of fact, letters 63 and 64 of _Pound/Zukofsky_ partially concern the word "antisemite," and in 64 Pound applies the term to himself. Jonathan Morse