Well, we all know how much America likes to “borrow” culture, and antisemitism is no exception. By the time Jews started arriving in large numbers at Ellis Island in the early 1900s, thousands of years of tropes showed up with them: that Jews are conspiring to take over the world. That they are dirty and disease-spreading. That they are clannish, disloyal, and can’t be trusted. That they are money-hungry and greedy. Which explains why, as we fast-forward to the present, the entire buffet is still being served.
