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No question about the racism -- which I do think was about gaining white status (the role of Jewish performers in minstrelry parallels this). You can see this in Eisner in particular.
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In many ways, the desire to claim White status was something that Western European Jews were already on the verge of attaining in full measure - and was being acquired by Eastern European Jews even when the Western European ones didn't want any association with them.
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Right -- there's a push to being white and also a redefining of white but that's not the same as being white. They weren't unequivocally white -- and indeed bore the marks of their outsider status more than earlier waves of German Jews.
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