Jewish Reform in Germany

In the early 18 hundreds, they start to inspire jewish reform. It starts in germany in the 18 tens and you get these synagogues in german towns. They do some things that sound totally familiar and normal to us. So it's this movement that they're trying, in a sense, to rationalize judaism. Some of them have the rabbis wear like robes that look like lutheran ministers. This then spreads to other places, right? It gets taken up in america. A lot of german jews migrate to America,. In the 18 forties, 18 fifties, you get a growing german jewish population in the us