Nobility and Jews shared family-centered a-national values that liberalism targeted as hindrances

Evidence

In Jewish as well as in noble families, the individual was regarded first of all as a member of a family; his duties were first of all determined by the family which transcended the life and importance of the individual. Both were a-national and inter-European, and each understood the other’s way of life in which national allegiance was secondary to loyalty to a family which more often than not was scattered all over Europe. … Anti-Jewish liberal writers did not fail to point out this curious similarity of principles, and they concluded that perhaps one could get rid of nobility only by first getting rid of the Jews, and this not because of their financial connections but because both were considered to be a hindrance to the true development of that “innate personality,” that ideology of self-respect, which the liberal middle classes employed in their fight against the concepts of birth, family, and heritage. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 131

Categorization

• DEFINE: Arendt introduces the ideal-typical contrast between ‘innate personality’ (liberal, self-made) and family-heritage-based identity, a distinction the field will need when discussing how the nation-state’s citizen-ideal excludes those defined by group membership.
• XREF: This ‘innate personality’ vs ‘birth/family/heritage’ opposition anticipates the later construction of the Jew as embodying racial/corporate identity against the abstract citizen — directly analogous to Fanon’s colonial psychology division of selfhood.