Jews served Europe as a non-national international element valued precisely for their unboundness.

Evidence

The intimate relationship between the peculiar conditions of Jewish existence and the ideology of such groups is even more evident in the organization of a group beyond nations than in the creation of a party beyond parties. The Jews very clearly were the only inter-European element in a nationalized Europe. It seemed only logical that their enemies had to organize on the same principle, if they were to fight those who were supposed to be the secret manipulators of the political destiny of all nations. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 154 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Jews’ stateless international status made them permanently useful to the nation-state.; Jews were the only inter-European element in a nationalized Europe — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 154; Jewish cultural productivity derived from their inter-European non-national role. (+4 more)

Related

• The Jews’ stateless international status made them permanently useful to the nation-state. (similarity 0.94)
• Jewish cultural productivity derived from their inter-European non-national role. (similarity 0.93)
• Jews were the only inter-European element in a nationalized Europe (similarity 0.92)
• Jews entered European history as a non-national inter-European element (similarity 0.87)
• Jews’ value lay in being bound to no national cause (similarity 0.85)
• Jews formed a state-defined group outside the class system (similarity 0.82)
• Jews uniquely contrasted civilization both downward to nature and upward to spirit. (similarity 0.81)
• Jews could merge with neither a class nor a nationality in the nation-state (similarity 0.80)
• European thinkers valued Jews as a unifying inter-national link (similarity 0.79)
• Jewish social position derived from state relationship rather than class, leaving them socially void. (similarity 0.79)
• European nationalism supplied the ideological template for Jewish statehood claims (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Jews were the only inter-European element in a nationalized Europe #contradicts (0.95) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 154
• Jewish cultural productivity derived from their inter-European non-national role. #expands (0.95)
• Jews could merge with neither a class nor a nationality in the nation-state #expands (0.90)
• Jews existed between social classes rather than within any one of them. #qualifies (0.80)
• Jews served states best by remaining outsiders working for them #expands (0.80)
• Nations are bounded by principle in a way universal religions were not. #qualifies (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 39