time in history the Jews were stereotyped for being rich. The Rothschild family, among others, came to be seen by anti-Semites as almost typical Jews. Jews could also be hated for being religious and for being atheistic. This was never more so than after Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky. Finally, for centuries Jews were hated for being stateless. “Rootless cosmopolitans” was one of the phrases that the extreme right once used in their discussions of Jews. The idea of the Jew as stateless and therefore likely to destabilize any country they were in was a commonplace of anti-Semitism for centuries.
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