Jewish racialization varies with historical stability and splits along West-East rather than unified lines

Evidence

The racialization processes in relation to the Jews have been in constant flux, pronounced often at time of crisis and less so in periods of greater stability. Moreover, it has been rare for all Jews to be racialised, or more accurately, for all Jews to be racialised negatively. It has been common, for example, to accept as ‘‘one of us’’ what were perceived as westernized Jews as against the essentially ‘‘oriental Jews’’ from the East. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion, 39

Categorization

• SEED: The West-East split in who counts as ‘one of us’ is a good angle for an essay on internal hierarchies within racialized groups and how whiteness is negotiated selectively.
• XREF: Connects to the Complaints About Immodesty article’s theme of dress and identity, and more broadly to debates about respectability politics and internalized hierarchies among marginalized groups. — connects to: Parallel racialization logics target Jews and Muslims across eras. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 40; Debates on antisemitism and Islamophobia have developed largely apart from race scholarship. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 10; The shared underlying logic of racialization persists across Jew and Muslim targets — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 40 (+12 more)

Related

• Jews were long classified as an oriental people by the West (similarity 0.83)
• Jewish historical variance stemmed more from non-Jewish environments than from Jews themselves. (similarity 0.82)
• European Jews and Muslims were jointly racialized as Semites until 1917 (similarity 0.81)
• Both Jews and Muslims have been racialized by majority populations in modern Europe. (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalist scholarship conflates Muslims and Jews into one racial type (similarity 0.81)
• Parallel racialization logics target Jews and Muslims across eras. (similarity 0.80)
• Israel categorized non-European Jews as fragmented edot while viewing Europeans as one coherent culture. (similarity 0.80)
• Debates on antisemitism and Islamophobia have developed largely apart from race scholarship. (similarity 0.79)
• The shared underlying logic of racialization persists across Jew and Muslim targets (similarity 0.79)
• The vilification of Jews and Muslims is one continuous historical process (similarity 0.79)
• Jews were racially Whitened while Arabs were raced as non-White threats (similarity 0.79)
• Judaism resists modern Western categories of nation, ethnicity, race, and religion. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim racialization is unstable, contested, and co-produced with anti-racism (similarity 0.78)
• Cross-national opinion data refute claims that Islamophobia and antisemitism are incommensurable (similarity 0.78)
• Western images of Muslims and Jews formed in inextricable conjunction (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Assimilated German Jews split over whether eastern Jewry threatened or redeemed German identity #exemplifies (0.90)
• Jews have been simultaneously seen as Western and Eastern peoples. #expands (0.85)
• State-backed historical ethnic divides get reinterpreted as racial conflicts #expands (0.78)
• Israeli politics fragmented along the ethnic divide between European and Asian-African Jews. #exemplifies (0.78)
• Mizrahi Jews occupy a not-quite-white middle rung in Israel’s racial hierarchy #exemplifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 600
• Assimilated German Jews were trapped in a double differentiation from both worlds #exemplifies (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 218
• European Jews and Muslims were jointly racialized as Semites until 1917 #expands (0.75) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 699
• Jews were long classified as an oriental people by the West #corroborates (0.72) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 68
• Israeli Orientalism retains nineteenth-century racial discourse the West has shed #expands (0.72)
• Jewish historical variance stemmed more from non-Jewish environments than from Jews themselves. #qualifies (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 18
• Existing orientalism paradigms need broadening to fit historical facts about Jews #expands (0.72)