Before modernity, segregated class perspectives kept hostile stereotypes of Jews from merging.

Evidence

There was little communication between the ranks in pre-modern times. There was hence little opportunity for the two perspectives, and the two stereotypes they generated, to converge and eventually to merge into the incongruous mixture typical of modern antisemitism. Due to the paucity of inter-class exchange, each of the antagonists waged, so to speak, its own ‘private war’ against the Jews, which – particularly in the case of the lower classes – could be wedded by the Church to ideological elaborations only tenuously related to the true causes of the conflict. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 139

Categorization

• XREF: Bauman’s contrast of pre-modern ‘private wars’ vs. modern blended antisemitism parallels the field’s distinction between pre-national hostility and nationalized Islamophobia. — connects to: Jews faced the twin contradictions of equality-as-privilege and non-national existence in nation-states.; Pre-modern caste structure made Jewish separation a normal rather than exceptional status — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 126; Social exclusion of Jews made abstract stereotypes replace personal knowledge. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 531 (+5 more)

Related

• Pre-modern caste structure made Jewish separation a normal rather than exceptional status (similarity 0.84)
• Jewish emancipation removed visible markers of difference and so made Jews newly threatening (similarity 0.81)
• Jews faced the twin contradictions of equality-as-privilege and non-national existence in nation-states. (similarity 0.80)
• Tribal antisemitism severed hatred of Jews from any actual experience of them (similarity 0.80)
• Modernity’s legal equality made Jewish separation a problem to be manufactured (similarity 0.79)
• Society preferred unassimilated Jews precisely because their alienness fed its imagination (similarity 0.79)
• The loss of a poor Jewish majority destroyed the comparative background for privileged Jews. (similarity 0.79)
• The conceptual Jew occupied every boundary conflict of Western modernity (similarity 0.78)
• Modernity generated a meta-incongruity whereby Jews symbolized the very disorder that unsettled everyone. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Social exclusion of Jews made abstract stereotypes replace personal knowledge. #corroborates (0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 531
• Jewish emancipation removed visible markers of difference and so made Jews newly threatening #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 143
• Modernity’s legal equality made Jewish separation a problem to be manufactured #expands (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 169
• Economic usefulness of Jews outweighed noble prejudice until state change #qualifies (0.75)
• State benevolence toward Jews deliberately preserved their felt separateness #expands (0.73)
• Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding #contradicts (0.72)