It’s silly that you seem to think being half-Jewish lowers your class position or something. There are lots of Jews who are effectively from multi generational aristocratic families, from the Rothschilds through a whole bunch of NY banking families who made their wealth in the 19th century.
And even those families were subject to anti-Semitism. My mother was born into the Social Register. When she married my Jewish father, that world went away. A Jew could be wealthy, could be delightful, could be well-mannered, but for some in my family a Jew could never be “our kind of people.” I have anti-Semites in my own family.
It’s silly that you seem to think being half-Jewish lowers your class position or something. There are lots of Jews who are effectively from multi generational aristocratic families, from the Rothschilds through a whole bunch of NY banking families who made their wealth in the 19th century.
And even those families were subject to anti-Semitism. My mother was born into the Social Register. When she married my Jewish father, that world went away. A Jew could be wealthy, could be delightful, could be well-mannered, but for some in my family a Jew could never be “our kind of people.” I have anti-Semites in my own family.