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[quote=Anonymous]^^^Jews who were in the US in the mid-1800s were mostly from Germany and Spain/Portugal. The Jews from Germany were pretty assimilated and were more likely to take on habits of their Christian neighbors. It was they who started the Reform movement, and at one point or in some places (I'm doing this from memory) they wanted to do Sabbath on Sunday, for example. They also introduced the organ into services. So it's not surprising many had Christmas trees.

When millions of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe came over starting around the 1880s through early 1920s, they were much more religious and traditional than the German Jews that came before them. And the German Jews were different than these "new Jews." The German Jews being more assimilated and less religious. It would be highly unusual for this Eastern European group of Jews to have had Christmas trees, overall. Assimilation happened with this group but much more slowly. Intermarriage with non-Jews happened several generations later, for the most part. Most Jews in the US today are descendants from the Eastern European wave of Jews.[/quote]

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