The Jews who remained in Egypt were the poorest and most culturally Egyptian

Evidence

Those who have remained are the most authentically Egyptian of all. These are the poor Jews from the old Cairo ghettos, who still wear the galabiya, who speak nothing but Arabic, and who cannot conceive of life in any other place. Their life has always been hard and poor—the discrimination now levelled against them by the re´gime makes only a marginal difference. There have been other troubles in the past, they say, “and God has helped and they have gone”; these, too, will no doubt go in time. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1283

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the pattern in Things Fall Apart and postcolonial writing of those who leave vs. those too rooted to leave — the emigrants are the privileged, the stay-behinds the most authentically native.