Reply To: Becoming More Wealthy, Becoming Less Frum

The Jews who r”l joined Bundism, Socialism, Communism or assimilated were not from the poorest Yidden. The poorer Yidden were far more likely to remain frum than join those deviant movements. Those movements attracted their adherents from those who were relatively better off financially than the average Yid in Eastern Europe.

In Germany also it was those who, relative to their brethren, were financially better off that joined the deviant movements and left Torah Judaism.