How Jews Became White Folks

In How Jews Became White Folks by Karen Brodkin thesis is “Suddenly the same folks who had promoted nativism and xenophobia were eager to believe that the Euro-orgin people whom they had deported reviled as members of inferior races, and prevented from immigrating only a few years were now model middle-class white suburban citizens.”
In the 1920’s scientific racism said that real Americans were white and that real whites came from northwest Europe. In 1882 racism by white people did not count Chinese in being white. This came to the immigration door being closed on Europeans and Chinese. Jews were the first of the Euro-immigrants to enter schooling and have a significant constant number attending colleges. With this, the Jews were discriminated against being called harsh names. The Seven Sisters schools were being said to be flagrant discriminating. Speech test were becoming difficult to stop Jews from becoming teachers because they did not want them to be teaching Catholics. After World War II, views on whites were changing and it made it easier for Euro-ethnics to become middle class. Economics also played a large role in where you were placed in class.
How come Jews were discriminated against even thought they are white? I think they were discriminated against because they did not follow the Catholic way. So instead of saying it was because of their choices in what they believe in for their god they just said they were not white. This put the Jews at a lower class instead of being where all the other white people were.
I think this article was confusing. I also believe that the Jews were mistreated because of their views instead of what they looked like. As people grew they became more understanding that there are more views on Gods than just their own and began to accept that.