Wealthy assimilating Jewish immigrants were welcomed while poor ones were racialized

Evidence

Thus a perfect harmony of interests was established between the powerful Jews and the state. Rich Jews wanted and obtained control over their fellow Jews and segregation from non-Jewish society; the state could combine a policy of benevolence toward rich Jews with legal discrimination against the Jewish intelligentsia and furtherance of social segregation, as expressed in the conservative theory of the Christian essence of the state. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 135 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

If Jewishness as exceptionalness was the reason for admitting Jews, then those were preferred who were clearly “a solid troop, homogeneous within itself and utterly dissimilar to the people who watched them go past,” those who had not yet “reached the same stage of assimilation” as their upstart brethren. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 263 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Jewish assimilation into the bourgeoisie led straight into the race-based order that persecuted them; Jews uniquely led immigrant defense because they had intellectuals and wealthy elites — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 721; German-Jewish philanthropy to immigrant slum dwellers was laced through with patronizing contempt (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• State favor toward wealthy Jews aligned with legal discrimination against poorer ones #corroborates (0.93) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 135
• Jewish admission into society hinged on perceived exotic difference, not similarity #complicates (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 263