Originally Posted by Mutt

um ....... if the Jews had wanted to assimilate they wouldn't have been welcomed. We have the Amish/Mennonite communities here, they maintain their religious and cultural traditions and practices, they don't wish to assimilate but they do business with secular modern people and are polite. This is how Jews I think lived in Europe.

In the 18th and 19th centuries European Jews began to assimilate and developed secular interests.

Poland was the promised land for Jews, it was the least anti-semitic country in Europe, why the Jewish population of Poland grew to over 3 million by 1939. Those who doubt that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust make up lies, the population of 3.2 million pre-war Jews is fact, Poland wasn't some third world country, they had census records - at the end of the war there were only 200,000 Jews of Polish nationality left, not like they could have slipped away anywhere, they were penniless. The Germans and Russians slaughtered as many non-military Poles as the number of Jews killed, 3 million.