Jewish Americans disassociated from Blacks to prove White racial loyalty

Evidence

The main point about the role of Jews in this fin-de-siecle society is that it was the antisemitism of the Dreyfus Affair which opened society’s doors to Jews, and that it was the end of the Affair, or rather the discovery of Dreyfus’ innocence, that put an end to their social glory. In other words, no matter what the Jews thought of themselves or of Dreyfus, they could play the role society had assigned them only as long as this same society was convinced that they belonged to a race of traitors. When the traitor was discovered to be the rather stupid victim of an ordinary frame-up, and the innocence of the Jews was established, social interest in Jews subsided as quickly as did political antisemitism. Jews were again looked upon as ordinary mortals and fell into the insignificance from which the supposed crime of one of their own had raised them temporarily. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 270 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Supporting Black civil rights delayed Jews’ acceptance into Whiteness — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 390; Jewish social acceptance depended on being perceived as a race of traitors. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 270; American Jews strategically shifted their claims to Whiteness before and after World War I — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 427 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Jewish social acceptance depended on being perceived as a race of traitors. #complicates (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 270