Akuperma, maybe it’s a chicken-and-egg issue but I think that cultural assimilation played a big role in the lessening of anti-Semitism in America. Even the Nativists did not generally espouse racial theories regarding different European peoples but feared the introduction of non-Anglo-Saxon cultural and political values. Anti-Semites did not want to hire or live among Jews because they perceived us as having negative, or at least different, personal characteristics and cultural values.When Jews became Americanized that changed.
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