Dejudaized Jewishness and homosexuality were socially equated as vices in Proust’s Paris

Evidence

It must be added that Proust himself was a true exponent of this society, for he was involved in both of its most fashionable “vices,” which he, “the greatest witness of dejudaized Judaism” interconnected in the “darkest comparison which ever has been made on behalf of Western Judaism”: the “vice” of Jewishness and the “vice” of homosexuality, and which in their reflection and individual reconsideration became very much alike indeed. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 257

Categorization

• XREF: The social construction of ‘vice’ identities parallels how race-thinking and deviance get constructed; useful bridging concept for the identity-construction literature in the Islamophobia dossier.
• QUESTION: Arendt’s claim that Jewishness and homosexuality ‘became very much alike’ in social reflection is compressed — worth chasing how this equivalence functioned and what it says about racialization as social construction.