American Judaism adopted Protestant worship forms to assimilate

Evidence

Due to their small numbers during the colonial era—fewer than two thousand—Jews were spared the high level of persecution they endured in Europe. Indeed, George Washington recognized the “children of the Stock of Abraham” when he made his famous statement that the government “gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” Until the 1870s, most Jews were highly educated and affluent immigrants from Central Europe. German, French, and English Jews were willing to change their habits of dress, language, dietary practices, and even way of worshipping to comport with Protestant normalcy and thereby were more readily accepted into the American mainstream. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 254 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The new Catholic immigrants settled together in the Midwest and replicated their German way of life in their new home, including their religious practices. In contrast to their English-speaking Irish Catholic compatriots, German immigrants felt isolated in American Catholic churches. As a result, they created separate churches where priests offered services in German. They built Catholic schools with lessons in German to avoid sending their children to secular public schools, which they perceived as godless. The German Catholic church discouraged its congregants from assimilating into Anglo-American norms it perceived as materialistic, hypocritical, vain, and immoral. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 407 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Jewish acceptance required assimilating into Protestant mainstream norms — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 254; Assimilation converted Judaism from a nationality or religion into a psychological quality; Even Jewish theology adopted the systematic form of surrounding Christian culture — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 328 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Jewish acceptance required assimilating into Protestant mainstream norms #corroborates (0.95) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 254
• German Catholics built separate German-language churches to resist Anglo-American assimilation #complicates (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 407