The Genocide was in fact a double caesura. It showed up as false both the Enlightenment values that had come to the fore over the prior 250 years as well as the traditional Jewish values of Orthodoxy that grew up to counter those Enlightenment values.
In the contest between Berkeley and Boro Park, they both lost, and it was the Genocide that showed them up to be the false Messiahs each were accusing the other of being.
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