2 sentences with “unassimilated”

Freud was Jewish, and his family underwent a generational transformation common among Central European Jews in the late 19th century, following the legal emancipation from anti-Semitic laws: his grandparents were poor and unassimilated, his parents were able to build a successful business in a major city, and Freud himself became a highly educated professional (he earned his medical degree in 1881).

Unlike the Jews of Central and Western Europe, most Eastern European Jews were largely unassimilated, lived in separate communities, spoke Yiddish as a vernacular rather than Polish or Russian, and often faced harsh anti-Semitism from their non-Jewish neighbours (which was somewhat muted in the nominally despised Soviet Union). Thus, Jews in the east had almost nowhere to run and few to help them once the German war machine arrived.