Sartre held that no legal or professional achievement lets Jews enter the ‘real’ society

Evidence

As Sartre says in his Réflexions sur la Question Juive (1946) … He [the Jew] … accepts the society around him, he joins the game and he conforms to all the ceremonies, dancing with the others the dance of respectability. Besides, he is nobody’s slave; he is a free citizen under a regime that allows free competition; he is forbidden no social dignity, no office of the state. He may be decorated with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, he may become a great lawyer or a cabinet minister. But at the very moment when he reaches the summits of legal society, another societyamorphous, diffused, and omnipresentappears before him as if in brief flashes of lightning and refuses to take him in. How sharply he must feel the vanity of honors and of fortune, when the greatest success will never gain him entrance into that society which considers itself the real' one. As a cabinet minister, he will be a Jewish cabinet minister, at once an Excellency’ and an untouchable. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 15

Categorization

• XREF: Sartre’s portrait of the tolerated outsider anticipates the reader’s interest in the Frankfurt School’s outsider genesis; also echoes The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s protagonist who achieves professional success yet remains an outsider. — connects to: Sartre rejected mere tolerance as an inadequate basis for ethics — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 636

Broader Connections

• Sartre rejected mere tolerance as an inadequate basis for ethics #expands (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 636