>Jews in Central Europe for est. 1500+ years kinda just do... Fuck all? >No major impact on politics or philosophy in Germany, Poland, or Russia >1800s hit>Within a century Judentum is dishing out Karl Marx, Trotsky, Mendelssohn, Kaminiev, Freud, Einstein, Blum, Weizman, Luxumburg, Bela Kun, etc...Genuinely what the fuck did they put in the water at this time? Not Chudposting here, just genuinely fascinated by the socio-cultural phenomen of Jewish assimilation in Europe so rapidly churning out this quantity of output
>>18652630Almost all of those didn't indentify with Jewish culture, Karl Marx was a christian turned atheist for example
>>18652630Jews went from socially isolated and religious to socially integrated and secular. That's what changed.
>>18652630There was a massive movement within the European jewry during the enlightment
