Jews traded political misery for social glory and vice versa under the nation-state

Evidence

THE PRECARIOUS balance between society and state, upon which the nation-state rested socially and politically, brought about a peculiar law governing Jewish admission to society. During the 150 years when Jews truly lived amidst, and not just in the neighborhood of, Western European peoples, they always had to pay with political misery for social glory and with social insult for political success. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 193

Categorization

• DEFINE: Encapsulates the structural law of the society/state balance — a zero-sum exchange between political and social standing.