in Germany, 114 homeland of, 8 in Hungary, 89 languages of, 18–20 in law, 1, 369 literacy among, 29 in Marx, 2 in Marxism, 2 in medicine, 1, 369 as Mercurians, 40 messianism of, 58–59 as model for nationalism, 44–45 and modernity, 30, 61 and Nazism, 2 occupations of, 30, 40 origins of Christianity in, 22, 40 in Poland, 89 in professions, 1, 30 and Protestantism, 33 purity/pollution among, 15 self-hatred of, 364 service nomadism of, 39, 40 Sombart on, 58, 59 state protection for, 5, 36 strangeness of, 10 as strangers, 40 as traders, 34 transience of, 28 travels of, 28–29 and tribe, 1 in United States, 89 as universal victims, 366 Veblen on, 59–60. See also anti-Semitism