Antisemites accused Jews of being simultaneously insular and cosmopolitan

Evidence

Critics portrayed them as simultaneously too insular and too cosmopolitan. They were capitalists and leftist revolutionaries. Sexually depraved, they preyed on Gentile girls by masterminding the practice of ‘white slavery’. Purveyors of alcohol, they exploited the simple Russian peasants’ love of drink—and were therefore responsible for inciting them to anti-Jewish violence in the pogrom. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 544

Categorization

• XREF: The simultaneously-insular-and-cosmopolitan double bind echoes the same contradictory stereotype in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Home Boy — the never-quite-belonging outsider accused of both extremes. — connects to: Jews were attacked simultaneously from left and right as capitalist and liberal symbols — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 388; Jews faced opposing attacks as both capitalist symbols and liberal values incarnate. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1542