The totalizing aim of Entfernung paradoxically preserved Jewish communal structure.

Evidence

Enslavement of the Jews was never Nazi purpose. Even if mass murder was not pondered as the ultimate end from the start, the state of affairs the Nazis wished to create was one of total Entfernung – an effective removal of the Jews from the life-world of the German race. Hitler and his followers had no use for the services the Jews could offer, even in the role of slave labour. … Perhaps an anticipated effect of such a ‘totalization’ of the Jewish problem was the survival of Jewish communal structure, autonomy and self-government long after similar factors of communal existence came under a frontal assault in all occupied Slav lands. … This survival meant first and foremost that Jewish traditional elites retained their adminstrative and spiritual leadership throughout the duration of the Holocaust; if anything, that leadership was further reinforced and made well-nigh uncontestable following the physical segregation of the Jews and the fencing off of the ghettos. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 345

Categorization

• XREF: The Entfernung concept feeds the reader’s scaffold on how totalizing exclusion regimes structure the target group — parallel to racialized exclusion dynamics in later Islamophobia readings. — connects to: Jewish emancipation simultaneously meant equality and the extension of group privileges — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 87; State benevolence toward Jews deliberately preserved their felt separateness; Jews formed a state-defined group outside the class system (+2 more)

Related

• Genocide can be achieved by reinforcing communal structures rather than destroying them (similarity 0.83)
• Jewish emancipation simultaneously meant equality and the extension of group privileges (similarity 0.82)
• Jews formed a state-defined group outside the class system (similarity 0.81)
• Society preferred unassimilated Jews precisely because their alienness fed its imagination (similarity 0.80)
• Jewish survival depended on voluntary self-separation, not on Gentile persecution. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• State benevolence toward Jews deliberately preserved their felt separateness #corroborates (0.88)
• A stable state’s need for them kept Jews a separate protected group #corroborates (0.82)
• Jews formed a state-defined group outside the class system #expands (0.78)
• Genocide can be achieved by reinforcing communal structures rather than destroying them #qualifies (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 348