Tribal antisemitism severed hatred of Jews from any actual experience of them

Evidence

Where the Nazis were most successful was in the depersonalization of the Jews. The more the Jew was forced out of social life, the more he seemed to fit the stereotypes of a propaganda which intensified, paradoxically, its campaign against ‘Jewry’ the fewer actual Jews there were in Germany itself. Depersonalization increased the already existent widespread indifference of German popular opinion and formed a vital stage between the archaic violence and the rationalized ‘assembly line’ annihilation of the death camps. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 531 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hatred of Jews became detached from any specific Jewish deeds; Jews became a symbolic target for everything the mob hated; Social exclusion of Jews made abstract stereotypes replace personal knowledge. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 531 (+3 more)

Related

• Social exclusion of Jews made abstract stereotypes replace personal knowledge. (similarity 0.90)
• Society preferred unassimilated Jews precisely because their alienness fed its imagination (similarity 0.87)
• Antisemitism thrived where Germans had almost no contact with Jews (similarity 0.83)
• Antisemitism survives and re-targets other populations after Jews disappear (similarity 0.83)
• Antisemitism peaked after Jews had already lost economic influence (similarity 0.82)
• Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding (similarity 0.82)
• Social discrimination invented the abstracted figure of the Jew as a universal type (similarity 0.82)
• Propaganda struggled to override personal images of known Jews. (similarity 0.81)
• Hate propaganda alone cannot socially isolate a target group (similarity 0.81)
• Jews became a symbolic target for everything the mob hated (similarity 0.80)
• Demonization of Jews stems from their modern ambiguous social role, not medieval memories (similarity 0.80)
• Jews formed a state-defined group outside the class system (similarity 0.80)
• Social factors, not just politics, turned antisemitism into extermination (similarity 0.80)
• Before modernity, segregated class perspectives kept hostile stereotypes of Jews from merging. (similarity 0.80)
• Nazi ideology encompassed antisemitic views that blamed Germans rather than Jews (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Hatred of Jews became detached from any specific Jewish deeds #corroborates (1.00)
• Antisemitism persisted as ideology after losing its social grounding #expands (0.90)
• Jews became a symbolic target for everything the mob hated #expands (0.85)
• Social exclusion of Jews made abstract stereotypes replace personal knowledge. #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 531
• Antisemitism survives and re-targets other populations after Jews disappear #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 226