Jews served as middlemen in nineteenth-century financial scandals without lasting gain

Evidence

While Jewish entrepreneurs were constructing the railroads, a leading Polish economist, J. Supiński, was complaining that ‘the railways are an abyss in which enormous resources are being sunk, not leaving other traces than the raised dyke and the rail lying on it’. When Jews built industrial plants, landowners accused them of destroying agriculture, which allegedly was short of labour. When the factories began working, their owners were not only hated by the Polish literary and social elite, but also pitied, for having left the life of country delights and bohemian liberty and pleasure for the dreary surroundings of a factory, which enslaves man and destroys him. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 152 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Even wealthy integrated Jews remained vulnerable as stateless pariahs; Nobility contempt for industry branded Jewish modernization as a national calamity — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 152

Related

• Nobility contempt for industry branded Jewish modernization as a national calamity (similarity 0.81)
• Petty-bourgeois resentment of free trade made Jews a ready scapegoat for industrial capitalism (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Even wealthy integrated Jews remained vulnerable as stateless pariahs #complicates (0.80)
• Nobility contempt for industry branded Jewish modernization as a national calamity #complicates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 152