Ghetto residents could absorb outside cultural techniques, seeding later assimilation

Evidence

Rabbi Leon Modena can serve as an example of those Jews who was open to the world outside the ghetto. Modena adopted certain techniques from Christian sermonizing, introduced choral music, and, like many other Jews, studied at a distance the developments in Christian thought, beginning a process that would eventually make assimilation possible. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2377

Categorization

• XREF: Evokes the two-way cultural borrowing in other segregated contexts — ritual, music, and technique adopted across boundaries.