What are the forms of European anti-Semitism?

Jews are 'too clever' and are often employ unethical business practices

Question: What are the forms of European anti-Semitism?
Position‹4 of 8›: Anti-bourgeois anti-Semitism
Argument: Jews are 'too clever' and are often employ unethical business practices

The Jewish character is stereotyped as manipulative and sly. Historically, Jewish people were often accused of being liars and cheats. Jewish people are also stereotyped to be frequently associated with roles that have been historically considered predatory such as tax collector or moneylender.

The argument

“And in his winning and handsome face there was just a faint suggestion of some possible very remote Jewish ancestor—just a tinge of that strong, sturdy, irrepressible, indomitable, indelible blood which is of priceless value in diluted homeopathic doses, like the dry white Spanish wine called montijo, which is not meant to be taken pure; but without a judicious admixture of which no sherry can go round the world and keep its flavour intact; or like the famous bulldog strain, which is not beautiful in itself, and yet just for lacking a little of the same no greyhound can ever hope to be a champion.”

Premises

[P1]Jewish ancestry is associated with traits of cleverness and shrewdness that, in business, manifest as a willingness to use unethical practices. [P2] These traits are tolerable or even advantageous only in small, diluted measure, but become harmful when concentrated. [C] Therefore, Jews as a group embody a 'too clever,' ethically suspect commercial character that fuels anti-bourgeois anti-Semitism.

Counter-arguments

This is a prejudicial stereotype rather than a factual claim, and cataloguing it here documents the trope without crediting it. Ascribing a shared moral character — cleverness turned to sharp practice — to millions of individuals on the basis of ancestry is the definition of bigotry, not observation. No evidence supports the notion that any ethnic or religious group is collectively more prone to unethical commerce; historians trace the 'too clever / dishonest in trade' canard from medieval usury libels through to Nazi propaganda, where it served to rationalise exclusion, expropriation and ultimately violence. The generalisation collapses on contact with the ordinary moral variation found within any large population.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] There is no basis for attributing shared psychological or moral traits to an entire people defined by ancestry; the claim is a stereotype contradicted by the ordinary range of conduct within any group. [Rejecting P2] The 'valuable only in dilution, harmful when concentrated' framing is pseudo-biological racial thinking with no scientific standing whatsoever. [Rejecting C] A sweeping claim about millions of individuals inferred from ancestry describes prejudice, not a real 'commercial character.'