Assimilated Western Jews avoided Eastern Jewish refugees

Evidence

Using the same tactics as Gentile society had employed against them they took pains to dissociate themselves from the so-called Ostjuden. Political antisemitism, as it had manifested itself in the pogroms of Russia and Rumania, they dismissed airily as a survival from the Middle Ages, scarcely a reality of modern politics. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 332 (#expands, via linked claim)

In the eyes of the Jewish bourgeoisie of Paris they were the incarnation of nationalist raideur… that attitude of distant disdain which the gentry affects towards its parvenu co-religionists. Their desire to assimilate completely to Gallic modes, to live on intimate terms with our old-established families, to occupy the most distinguished positions in the state, and the contempt which they showed for the commercial elements of Jewry, for the recently naturalized ‘Polaks’ of Galicia, gave them almost the appearance of traitors against their own race… The Dreyfuses of 1894? Why, they were anti-semites!” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2134 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Jews prefigured Orientalized others as inside-yet-outside Western Christendom; Assimilated Jews could be seen as antisemites by less-assimilated Jewish communities — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2134; Assimilated German Jews were trapped in a double differentiation from both worlds — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 218 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Assimilated German Jews called eastern Jews un-German #exemplifies (0.93)
• Assimilated Jews diverted antisemitic antipathy onto poorer immigrant brethren #expands (0.90) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 332
• Assimilated Jews could be seen as antisemites by less-assimilated Jewish communities #expands (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2134
• Assimilated German Jews were trapped in a double differentiation from both worlds #expands (0.76) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 218
• Jewish racialization varies with historical stability and splits along West-East rather than unified lines #qualifies (0.75) — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion, 39
• Jews prefigured Orientalized others as inside-yet-outside Western Christendom #expands (0.74)