Jews existed between social classes rather than within any one of them.
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- Jews traded economic influence for social status to secure settlement in South Africa (similarity 0.85)
- Privileged Jews policed mass Jewish orthodoxy to secure their own standing (similarity 0.84)
- European states came to depend on Jewish financiers for government loans (similarity 0.84)
- Jews historically occupied no social class but sat as an inserted wedge between classes. (similarity 0.81)
- Assimilation reduced Jewish identity to a mere fact of birth (similarity 0.81)
- Jewish financiers in South Africa recruited newcomers as their representatives in the population (similarity 0.81)
- Placing both conflict parties outside the law silenced the Jewish question politically (similarity 0.79)
- The myth of Jewish exceptionalism obscures that Jews are not the only people with such claims. (similarity 0.79)
- A stable state’s need for them kept Jews a separate protected group (similarity 0.79)
- Egyptian writers erased the Nubian-Sudanese distinction under one stereotype (similarity 0.78)
- The Jews and Muslims question resolves through a shared genealogy of absolute subjection. (similarity 0.78)