Anti-Semitic exclusion disciplined Jewish parvenus for faults natives shared

Evidence

To a segment of American opinion, the Jews seemed clothed in greed and deceit. It was this conception that had exposed them to the charge of disloyal profiteering during the war. [hereafter the persistent Shylock image acquired a significant new dimension. It broadened during the Gilded Age into an indictment of Jewish manners for vulgarity and ostentation. The Jew, it now appeared, was not only mercenary and unscrupulous but also clamorously self-assertive—a tasteless barbarian rudely elbowing into genteel company. … Anti-Semitic discriminations subjected him to a discipline that native Americans could not so easily impose on themselves. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 166

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Antisemites conflate the parvenu with the pariah in every Jew; Assimilated Jews diverted antisemitic antipathy onto poorer immigrant brethren — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 332

Broader Connections

• Antisemites conflate the parvenu with the pariah in every Jew #expands (0.85)
• Assimilated Jews diverted antisemitic antipathy onto poorer immigrant brethren #complicates (0.70) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 332