Antisemitism’s persistence tracked the absence of shared prosperity, not the presence of Jews.

Evidence

The survival of the Pan-Germanist movement and its violent antisemitism in these provinces, while it subsided in the urban centers, was merely due to the fact that these provinces were never reached to the same extent by the universal prosperity of the pre-war period which reconciled the urban population with the government. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 164

Categorization

• QUESTION: Arendt states this economic explanation flatly (‘merely due’); worth probing whether prosperity really reconciles populations with governments, since this claim recurs as a mechanism in her account.
• XREF: connects to: Antisemitism persisted even after its economic basis vanished — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 527