Rothschild house law married daughters outward while keeping men endogamous

Evidence

How well the Rothschilds knew the sources of their strength is shown in their early house law according to which daughters and their husbands were eliminated from the business of the house. The girls were allowed, and after 1871, even encouraged, to marry into the non-Jewish aristocracy; the male descendants had to marry Jewish girls exclusively, and if possible (in the first generation this was generally the case) members of the family. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1984

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reading purpose’s theme of how exclusion can be internally reproduced — an elite Jewish family actively self-segregating via marriage law, a mechanism that parallels how colonial and national groups police boundaries of identity.