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In order to answer this we must look at the events that occurred before the early 20th century. The movement towards citizenship in European countries such as Germany, France, Holland, England, et al began as the movement called the the (Haskalah) or the Jewish Enlightenment. It was a movement among European Jews in the late 18th century that advocated adopting enlightenment values, pressing for better integration into European society, and increasing education in secular studies, Hebrew, and Jewish history. Haskalah in this sense marked the beginning of the wider engagement of European Jews with the secular world, ultimately resulting in the first Jewish political movements and the struggle for Jewish emancipation. The division of Ashkenazi Jewry into religious movements or denominations, especially in North America and anglophone countries, began historically as a reaction to Haskalah.

Even as it eased integration, haskalah also resulted in a revival of Jewish secular identity, with an emphasis on Jewish history and Jewish identity. The result was engagement of the Jews in a variety of ways with the countries in which they lived, including the struggle for Jewish emancipation and the birth of new Jewish political movements, and ultimately the development of Zionism in the face of the persecutions of the late 1800s.

Enlightened Jews sided with gentile governments in plans to increase secular education amongst the Jewish masses, bringing them into acute conflict with the orthodox who believed this threatened Jewish life. This then led to the Jewish people of these countries to finally attain citizenship.

In 1879 a German newspaper editor, Wilhelm Marr, coined the term anti- semitism and by so doing defined the Jews as an ethnic group as opposed to being a religion. In the past as a religious group they could convert to Christianity to avoid persecution from the Inquisition. However, being identified as an ethnicity it then became a racial issue, one could always change their religion but not their race.

This then led to the persecution of Jews beginning in Germany by Adolph Hitler and quickly spread to other European countries during the Holocaust. It was utterly inconceivable to German Jews that their refined, cultured Gentile countryman could commit such brutal acts. European Jews had acculturated into a society that proved to be one of the most uncultured and uncivilized of the early to mid 20th century.

Prior to this however, the Jews lead a relatively comfortable life in Europe up to the end of WW 1.

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