German-Jewish philanthropy to immigrant slum dwellers was laced through with patronizing contempt

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

No one, however, found it more difficult to grasp this fact than the emancipated Jews themselves. “It isn’t enough for them,” wrote Bernard Lazare, “to reject any solidarity with their foreign-born brethren; they have also to go charging them with all the evils which their own cowardice engenders. They are not content with being more jingoist than the native Frenchmen; like all emancipated Jews everywhere, they have also of their own volition broken all ties of solidarity. Indeed, they go so far that for the three dozen or so men in France who are ready to defend one of their martyred brethren you can find some thousands ready to stand guard over Devil’s Island, alongside the most rabid patriots of the country.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 332 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Assimilated Jews diverted antisemitic antipathy onto poorer immigrant brethren — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 332; Wealthy assimilating Jewish immigrants were welcomed while poor ones were racialized; Emancipated Jews actively severed solidarity with poorer immigrant co-religionists rather than defending them — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 332 (+5 more)

Related

• Assimilated Jews diverted antisemitic antipathy onto poorer immigrant brethren (similarity 0.84)
• Emancipated Jews actively severed solidarity with poorer immigrant co-religionists rather than defending them (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Assimilated Jews diverted antisemitic antipathy onto poorer immigrant brethren #corroborates (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 332
• Emancipated Jews actively severed solidarity with poorer immigrant co-religionists rather than defending them #corroborates (0.82) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 332
• Wealthy assimilating Jewish immigrants were welcomed while poor ones were racialized #corroborates (0.80)
• Jewish political homelessness caused fatal misreading of modern antisemitism as old religious Jew-hatred #expands (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 75
• Assimilated Jewish pride was matched by ignorance of Jewish life #corroborates (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 231
• Sabra contempt for Holocaust refugees dulled their sensitivity to Palestinian suffering #corroborates (0.72)
• Early German Jewish migrants to Palestine often remained permanently alienated from yishuv society #corroborates (0.70) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 463