Jews who withdrew from regime involvement lost influence over other Jews

Evidence

Thus the leading Jewish houses gradually faded from the scene of finance politics and betook themselves more and more to the antisemitic salons of the aristocracy, there to dream of financing reactionary movements designed to restore the good old days. Meanwhile, however, other Jewish circles, newcomers among Jewish plutocrats, were beginning to take an increasing part in the commercial life of the Third Republic. What the Rothschilds had almost forgotten and what had nearly cost them their power was the simple fact that once they withdrew, even for a moment, from active interest in a regime, they immediately lost their influence not only upon cabinet circles but upon the Jews. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 292

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the mechanism of ‘proximity to power as the source of communal authority’ that reappears in later readings on minority leadership and state co-optation.