Long diaspora duration institutionalized antisemitic boundary rituals into self-reproducing form

Evidence

Unlike in most other cases of resettlement, therefore, boundary-clearing responses to the Jewish presence had enough time to sediment and institutionalize as codified rituals with an in-built self-reproducing capacity, which in its turn further reinforced the resilience of the separation. Another peculiar feature of the Jewish diaspora was the universality of Jewish homelessness, a quality that the Jews shared perhaps only with the Gypsies. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 123

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Bauman’s broader scaffolding of modernity’s role in the Holocaust, and to the segmentary/pre-modern caste discussion in paragraph 126; also links forward to how modernity dismantles these ritual boundaries. — connects to: Christian self-identity was constitutively dependent on ongoing Jewish estrangement — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 130; Assimilation paradoxically produced Jewish chauvinism rather than dissolving it; Ritual serves as evidence-free commitment for contracts illegality prevents ratifying (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Assimilation paradoxically produced Jewish chauvinism rather than dissolving it #contradicts (0.75)
• The ritual view of communication maintains society in time through shared beliefs #expands (0.73) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 161
• Christian self-identity was constitutively dependent on ongoing Jewish estrangement #expands (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 130
• Ritual serves as evidence-free commitment for contracts illegality prevents ratifying #expands (0.72)