Jewish assimilation
Jewish assimilation refers either to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture or to an ideological program in the age of emancipation promoting conformity as a potential solution to historic Jewish marginalization. == Terminology == Modern Jewish History professor Todd Endelman (2015) used the following terms to describe various forms of Jewish assimilation: Radical assimilation: 'an umbrella term referring to all the routes Jews traveled to lose their Jewishness, whether that was their intention or not'.