Status competition, not ancient ideology, drove daily anti-Jewish discrimination

Evidence

I was able to show—at least to my own satisfaction—that organized nativism was not a problem for Jews in the nineteenth century, but social discrimination was. It arose inescapably from competition for social status and material advancement, which touched the daily life of Jews more intimately than all the ancient memories of Christian persecution or the nightmares of Jewish world dominion. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 2019

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence for reader’s divergence thesis — actual measured discrimination diverges from the ideological doctrines of the era. — connects to: Anti-Jewish feeling in nineteenth-century America was status competition, not ideology — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 2019; Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding

Broader Connections

• Anti-Jewish feeling in nineteenth-century America was status competition, not ideology #corroborates (0.95) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 2019
• Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding #complicates (0.80)