Reply To: Jews Were Protected From Assimilation By Being Despised and Uncivilized

Myfriend; You are misinterpreting (as opposed to narrowly transliterating) the thrust of the cited “Drashot Chasam Sofer”. The emphasis in his message is (essentially the same as RSR Hirsch’s, albeit through different methods) that we, the Jews shouldn’t get acculturated with the native population. Meaning, feeling comfortable and one of them, as happened, in Germany, with the tragic results in the end. The Reform movement and intermarriage and general acculturation was not a short term process. It took about 150 Years.