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| | Jewish History of Czech Republic |
 | | The party was opposed by Czech, Slovak, German, and Hungarian assimilationists, as well as by the extreme Orthodox, who gave their votes to the strongest Czech party, the Agrarians. |
 | | Among the Czech elements it was less noticeable, mainly because of the personal example of Thomas Masaryk and Eduard Bene, and the democratic political philosophy as expounded by them and other leaders of public opinion. |
 | | In the Czech Republic especially, where Jews traditionally were highly assimilated and intermarriage was common, many of the younger people who consider themselves Jews are not Jews according to halakhic law. |
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