A stable state’s need for them kept Jews a separate protected group

Evidence

The Jews could remain a separate group outside of society only so long as a more or less homogeneous and stable state machine had a use for them and was interested in protecting them. The decay of the state machine brought about the dissolution of the closed ranks of Jewry, which had so long been bound up with it. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 294

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• A protected outsider group dissolves when the protecting state decays (similarity 0.88)
• The Jews’ stateless international status made them permanently useful to the nation-state. (similarity 0.83)
• Jews served states best by remaining outsiders working for them (similarity 0.82)
• A group’s dependence on state protection leaves it scapegoated in social conflicts (similarity 0.82)
• The nation-state needed Jewish credit and so preserved Jews as a separate group (similarity 0.81)
• Jewish prominence rose as their actual power and state stability fell. (similarity 0.81)
• Jewish prominence grew inversely with their real power and with nation-state stability (similarity 0.81)
• Jews served Europe as a non-national international element valued precisely for their unboundness. (similarity 0.81)
• State protection converted privileged Jews from exceptions into representatives of a despised group. (similarity 0.80)
• French Jewry’s dissolution into cliques preserved rather than ended its state influence (similarity 0.80)
• Jews occupied no class position because the state, not class relations, defined them (similarity 0.80)
• The nation-state’s protection and Jewish self-preservation interests coincided to prevent assimilation. (similarity 0.80)
• Jews’ value lay in being bound to no national cause (similarity 0.80)
• Jews always depended on non-Jewish protection for their physical existence after exile. (similarity 0.79)
• Jewish social position derived from state relationship rather than class, leaving them socially void. (similarity 0.79)