Framing the Jewish question as educational pushed Jews into the liberal professions

Evidence

The peculiar fact that in Germany the Jewish question was held to be a question of education was closely connected with this early start and had its consequence in the educational philistinism of both the Jewish and non-Jewish middle classes, and also in the crowding of Jews into the liberal professions. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 202

Categorization

  • XREF: The framing of a political question as an educational one — a displacement of politics into culture/personality — is a mechanism that recurs in how minority groups are told to ‘improve themselves’ rather than demand structural change.