Antisemitism persisted even after its economic basis vanished

Evidence

At first glance, it is surprising that a violent antisemitism survived the disappearance of the Jewish financiers as well as the successful indoctrination with racism of all parts of the European population. The Jews were certainly no exception to this rule; they adjusted to racism as well as everybody else and their behavior toward black people was beyond reproach. Yet they had, without being aware of it and under pressure of special circumstances, broken with one of the most powerful traditions of the country. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 527

The Jewish go-between is turned into a devilish character after he ceases to exist in the economy. This makes the triumph easy, and the anti-Semitic family man becomes a spectator—with no responsibility—of the irresistible historical trend, who only acts to the extent that his role as a party employee or a worker in the factories manufacturing gas crystals for the extermination camps so requires. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 164

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism relevant to how ideological exclusion outlives its material pretext — parallels the persistence of Islamophobia after the economic drivers that ‘justified’ it recede. — connects to: Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding; Antisemitism peaked after Jews had already lost economic influence; Antisemitism detaches from real conditions and becomes free-floating ideology once politically irrelevant — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 185 (+10 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The counterintuitive core: the Jew is hated as a middleman after ceasing to function as one — the persecuted object outlives its historical referent, and ordinary workers become passive spectators of genocide.
• BMF: The inversion — a hated figure persisting long after the economic role that justified the hatred has vanished — evokes the enduring colonial resentment structures in ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ and the calcified grievances in ‘Things Fall Apart’.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 527; Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 164

Broader Connections

• Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding #corroborates (0.95)
• Antisemitism detaches from real conditions and becomes free-floating ideology once politically irrelevant #expands (0.92) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 185
• Antisemitism peaked after Jews had already lost economic influence #corroborates (0.90)
• Antisemitic hatred peaked precisely when Jewish political importance declined #corroborates (0.90) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 134
• Pan-movement antisemitism was severed from actual Jewish experience and followed ideological logic #corroborates (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 582
• Antisemitism’s persistence tracked the absence of shared prosperity, not the presence of Jews. #complicates (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 164