Propaganda struggled to override personal images of known Jews.

Evidence

Julius Streicher, the pioneer of Nazi antisemitic propaganda, found that the most daunting of tasks his paper Der Stürmer was set up to perform, was to make the stereotype of the Jew as such’ stick to the personal images his readers held of the Jews they knew, of the Jewish neighbours, friends or business partners. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 524

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the personal-image vs abstract-stereotype distinction — the ‘Jew next door’ problem at the heart of this chapter.
• XREF: connects to: Chimerical images of Jewish power became dangerous public fears; Socially admitted Jews had to stage a mystified, hidden identity they openly bore.; The Church crafted ‘the Jew’ as an abstract category detached from daily encounter — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 131 (+3 more)

Related

• Chimerical images of Jewish power became dangerous public fears (similarity 0.89)
• Social exclusion of Jews made abstract stereotypes replace personal knowledge. (similarity 0.84)
• Nazi propaganda dehumanized Jews as disease-bearing animals. (similarity 0.81)
• Tribal antisemitism severed hatred of Jews from any actual experience of them (similarity 0.81)
• Society preferred unassimilated Jews precisely because their alienness fed its imagination (similarity 0.79)
• Hate propaganda alone cannot socially isolate a target group (similarity 0.79)
• Nazi antisemitic propaganda promised an outcome prepared by the Aryan-Jew dichotomy (similarity 0.79)
• Socially admitted Jews had to stage a mystified, hidden identity they openly bore. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Popular hatred was insufficient to drive the Holocaust #corroborates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 212