is, on the one hand, an 'excluded other' on the other hand, the 'jew's' refusal to completely assimilate transforms them into an 'intimate alterity that marks the limit of power', producing 'difference and ambiguity'.

On one hand the 'Jew' is an 'excluded other' especially in European societies and later on in Nazi Germany who has to be assimilated to the centre and made the same to maintain 'order and certainty'. On the other hand, the 'Jew's' refusal to completely assimilate transforms them into an 'intimate alterity that marks the limit of power', producing 'difference and ambiguity', in Paolini's words.

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