Jewish converts retained a stigma that Muslim converts did not carry

Evidence

For many of these artists, Jewishness had become much more than a religious identity; indeed it was an indelible aspect, and a negative one at that, of the character of Jews and of their offspring. Viewed through this antisemitic lens, it became more difficult for conversion to erase one’s Jewishness, and some Jewish converts to Christianity never entirely escaped their roots. … By contrast, rival composers whose family names betrayed Tatar (and thus Muslim) origins, including Alexander Borodin and Mily Balakirev, were associated with a more thoroughly authentic Russianness, in both their character and their music. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 539

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader antisemitism-islamophobia shared-story thesis of this book — both groups racialized, but asymmetrically. — connects to: So-called converts of Jewish origin were still deported and killed — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 444