Graetz practiced an internal orientalism degrading East European Jews

Evidence

And of Yiddish, he dismissed it by calling it a “halb tierische Sprache” [a half-animal language], thereby betraying his own barbarism and vulgarity. With a venom that could only be matched by anti-Semites, Graetz engaged in his own form of internal Jewish orientalism, deriding and degrading one part of his own people in order to highlight the characteristics he found favorable in another branch of Jewry. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 373

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how oppressed groups internalize the oppressor’s hierarchy and turn it on their own marginalized co-ethnics — ‘internal orientalism’ as a generalizable phenomenon (also visible in class contempt within immigrant communities).
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 373