German Jews could never be Germans who merely happened to be Jews

Evidence

Could one be a German who just happened to be a Jew, just as the narrator desires to be a German with Turkish and Jewish ancestry? The historical answer is clearly no. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 770

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader pattern of Jewish/German identity impossibility that echoes throughout the German-Jewish catastrophe literature — e.g. the failure of the Enlightenment emancipation project.