Socially admitted Jews had to stage a mystified, hidden identity they openly bore.

Evidence

All the same, the Jew can be unknown in his Jewishness. He is not wholly what he is. One hopes, one waits. His actions, his behavior are the final determinant. He is a white man, and, apart from some rather debatable characteristics, he can sometimes go unnoticed. He belongs to the race of those who since the beginning of time have never known cannibalism. What an idea, to eat one’s father! Simple enough, one has only not to be a nigger. Granted, the Jews are harassed–what am I thinking of? They are hunted down, exterminated, cremated. But these are little family quarrels. The Jew is disliked from the moment he is tracked down. But in my case everything takes on a new guise. I am given no chance. I am overdetermined from without. I am the slave not of the “idea” that others have of me but of my own appearance. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 416 (#expands, via linked claim)

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bourgeois society admitted Jews as exotic and entertainingly vicious; Jews were socially admitted to French high society only as suspected traitors.; Propaganda struggled to override personal images of known Jews. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 524 (+1 more)

Related

• Black identity is overdetermined from outside by appearance, unlike Jewish identity which allows concealment. (similarity 0.80)
• Propaganda struggled to override personal images of known Jews. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Black identity is overdetermined from outside by appearance, unlike Jewish identity which allows concealment. #expands (0.82) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 416
• Propaganda struggled to override personal images of known Jews. #complicates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 524