Eastern European Jewry met classic criteria of a national minority

Evidence

This Jewish community had most, if not all, of the characteristics of a national minority in Eastern Europe—a common culture and way of life, a common religion, a putative common descent, and a common language (Yiddish) exclusive to them. They had their own literature, provided their own schools, and created a form of higher education, in the rabbinical seminaries. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 941

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: East European Jews numbered five to six million by 1880; Eastern European Jewry was an ethnic nation lacking legal status, like its neighbors — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 941; Jews entered European history as a non-national inter-European element — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 110 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: East European Jews numbered five to six million by 1880; Eastern European Jewry was an ethnic nation lacking legal status, like its neighbors — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 941; Jews entered European history as a non-national inter-European element — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 110 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Jews were the only inter-European element in a nationalized Europe #complicates (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 154
• Jews entered European history as a non-national inter-European element #complicates (0.82) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 110
• European thinkers valued Jews as a unifying inter-national link #complicates (0.76) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 111