Indeed. Much the same way Armenians were scapegoated in Turkey-I read Thomas Sowell’s works, and he references the necessary “middleman” in societies that have any kind of prosperous societies, as you said, it was Jews in many countries.
Middlemen are essential to prosperity, yet when things go bad and economies crash, middlemen are often one of first groups that are demonized, thought of as blood-suckers and leeches, contributing nothing to the product except making it more expensive (this in the minds of people who are likely to persecute them)
Jews got to their position of “middlemen of society” because in the Middle Ages Christians were not allowed to lend money at interest but Jews were while not allowed to own land. In Finance they got the jump on everybody else by centuries.