Anti-Semitic nationalism emerged from wartime 100 per cent Americanism.

Evidence

What was startling, however, was not so much the steady growth of discrimination as the rise of a new anti-Semitic nationalism. On the whole the wartime spirit of fraternity had repressed and inhibited anti-Semitic ideas. Nevertheless, the seeds of a new movement against Jews were to be found in the 100 per cent Americanism of the war years. The more wealthy and prominent Jews in the United States were of German background. Certain 100 per centers, therefore, applied to the Jews the suspicion of all things German. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1683

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nationalist anti-Semitism channels religious fanaticism’s energy into race hatred — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 133; American anti-Semites scored as rigid, conservative, and nationalistic; War converted Americanization from cosmopolitan sympathy into coercive nationalist conformity. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1483 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Fear of Germany during World War One was repurposed into anti-Semitism against German Jews #exemplifies (0.85) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1683
• War converted Americanization from cosmopolitan sympathy into coercive nationalist conformity. #expands (0.82) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1483
• Cultural labels like ‘Americanism’ are reaction from socially displaced strata, not new order. #complicates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1159
• American anti-Semites scored as rigid, conservative, and nationalistic #exemplifies (0.78)
• Gramsci read Americanism as a symptom of a major historical shift in production relations. #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1026
• Nationalist anti-Semitism channels religious fanaticism’s energy into race hatred #expands (0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 133