(Jewish Group) Kissinger at 100: 'If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic.'

[Behind the Aegis]

2. IMO, I doubt your mother's experience was anti-Semitic from other Jews. Though it could have been.

It was more than likely class discrimination and immigrant discrimination. Her experience was similar to Jews from the Pale when they went to Germany, France, England, and Italy prior to WWII. It is also similar to the intercultural bigotry experienced by African-Americans from the South when they moved to northern cities.

With that asshole, Kissinger, I think that is more internalized anti-Semitism, and, as I said, I think there are way more than a few Jews who are anti-Semitic toward other Jews because they are Jews, and less so because of issues of immigration status and class, as was all too common in the past.