Oh, so you think "self-hating Jews" includes those who happen to make it to the position of Chief Justice of an Orthodox Supreme Rabbinical Court!
The vapors are getting to you.
German repression of the Christ-killer Jews goes back at least as far as the middle ages. Anyone with a Jewish name was banned from many jobs, including anything in banking, government, and owning many private sector businesses.
I'm not going to discuss the aftermath of the bar Kochba revolt for your benefit.
At the end of the 19th Century, Germany was the best place in Europe for a Jew to live, which is one reason why there were so many there at that time. As to Jewish names, Antelman recounts how not a few were adopted for the purpose of infiltrating European royalty. "Converting" religions as a pretense was a favorite Sabbatean sport, as exemplified by Ya'akov Lieb Frank.
I am always interested in the etymology of surnames. Could you please explain some of the name changes by Jews in Europe. I always assumed that the European surnames were adopted by the Jewish population in Europe, the same way that the rest of the Europeans adopted surnames as a means of identification, either to family lineage, such as Robert’s son, or through career, such as kitchener, miller, butcher or other identifying trait. Is that not so?
Perhaps. The odor of Zyklon-B is unmistakable.
The bitter harvest you reek of reminds me of almonds.
There actually were almost 8 times as many Jews living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire than there were in Germany.
Almost 3 times as many Jews lived in Poland as did in Germany.
On a percentage basis, as many Jews lived in the UK as in Germany.
Only 5% of Europe's Jewish population lived in Germany, a country which comprised about 15% of the European population.