(...) This shame in the face of poverty is not unique to Jewish culture, but in the context of Jewish culture, the erasure of poverty may produce the additional effect of inflaming the antisemitic myth that Jews are rich. Perhaps one reason that we do not want to think about Jewish poverty is because we indeed wish to forget that with rising antisemitism, Jewish poverty might also be on the rise as well.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/boazs-grainpile-and-ruths-vulnerability/
