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Antisemitism only conserved Jewish identity after emancipation and assimilation.

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tags	ja-picks, causal_relationships, trade, singleton, category/causal-relationships
aliases	@arendt_origins_1951, loc. 18

Sep 20, 20261 min read

Antisemitism only conserved Jewish identity after emancipation and assimilation.

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Only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, after emancipation and with the spread of assimilation, has antisemitism played any role in the conservation of the people, since only then did Jews aspire to being admitted to non-Jewish society. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 18

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Antisemitism only conserved Jewish identity after emancipation and assimilation.
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Antisemitism's political aim was liquidating the nation-state, not just the Jews
Assimilation paradoxically produced Jewish chauvinism rather than dissolving it
Assimilation reduced Jewish identity to a mere fact of birth
Jewish question became a catalyst for social unrest in bourgeois society
Socialist neglect of the Jewish question ceded the field to antisemites
State interest in Jews as useful became unspeakable once framed as principle
Hannah Arendt — The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt — The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Antisemitism only conserved Jewish identity after emancipation and assimilation.

Antisemitism only conserved Jewish identity after emancipation and assimilation.

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