Anti-Semitic nativism survived and grew once its anti-radical trigger faded
Evidence
Up to this point the anti-Semitic movement had fed largely on the Red Scare, reflecting the conditions of 1917-1919 rather than the newer anxieties emerging in 1920. At the very time, however, when anti-Semitism was coming into the open and the “Protocols” were beginning to play a small part in molding public opinion, anti-radical nativism was subsiding. Instead of collapsing with it, the anti-Jewish strain in 100 per cent Americanism outlived that early phase and passed on from a time of war and revolution to one of depression and disillusion. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1694
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Anti-radicalism evaporated when its labor-unrest basis faded — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1388; Nativism persisted beyond its anti-radical phase and assumed evolving new forms — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1399; Nativism abandoned ideological conversion for permanent racial exclusion once radical threat dissolved — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1580 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Nativism abandoned ideological conversion for permanent racial exclusion once radical threat dissolved
#corroborates(0.90) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1580 - Antisemitism detaches from real conditions and becomes free-floating ideology once politically irrelevant
#expands(0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 185 - Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding
#corroborates(0.80) - Antisemitism persisted even after its economic basis vanished
#corroborates(0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 527 - Antisemitic hatred peaked precisely when Jewish political importance declined
#exemplifies(0.75) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 134 - Persistent ethnocentric judgments provide the subsoil in which nativism later grows
#expands(0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 149