Jewish acceptance required assimilating into Protestant mainstream norms

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

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s prior material on how minority groups (including Muslims) must perform assimilation to gain acceptance in majority societies.