Pick the worst:
- TNG fan
- Skinny Puppy fan
- Canadian
or
- All of the above
Actually many scholars have included the refusal to assimilate as one of the reasons for anti-semitism and creation of ghettos. Honestly even today look at how the press (even the Jewish press like Forward) treats the Charedim.
Actually there is lots of written documentation by rabbis and common Jews, those who werent on the assimilation/Reform side, that shtetl life was preferred to abandoning Jewish life and practice. Essentially the same can be seen today in places like Kriyas Yoel or B’nei Brak. And as above, the Charedim still get shit on in the press by Jews and gentiles alike.
