"As Arendt would have it, there were no poor Jews living on the margins of European society, managing to live with difficulty and without political and civil rights. As Arendt would have it, 'the Jews' were all bankers, financiers, court Jews and privileged, or in her generalizing language: 'The Jews had been purveyors in wars and the servants of kings.' Not some individual Jews, but 'the Jews.'" Shlomo Avineri