Nearly half of Americans held low opinions of Jews in 1938

Evidence

By 1938, one poll found that 35 percent of Americans believed Jews were to blame for the pogroms and other atrocities committed against them in Europe; and nearly 50 percent of Americans held low opinions of Jews. Tellingly, the same unfavorable opinions of Muslims pervade American society nearly one hundred years later. A 2017 Pew Research poll, for example, found that 50 percent of Americans think Islam is not part of mainstream America and only 48 percent express warm feelings toward Muslims, as compared to 65 percent toward mainline Protestants. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 272

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the 2017 Pew numbers on Muslims, making the historical/contemporary symmetry the author’s explicit argument. — connects to: Exiled Frankfurt School members found American social anti-Semitism worse than German — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 2152; American social anti-Semitism was more pervasive but softer than European varieties. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1545