What the heck to they mean by "assimilated Jewish parents" in the Hedy Lamarr article on Wikipedia?

Question

[I'm asking this on behalf of someone else.]


In this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

We see this line:
"Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the only child of assimilated Jewish parents."


What could the writer have had in mind with the word "assimilated?"

Answer 1

Presumably the word here refers to cultural assimilation:



< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_assimilation >

Answer 2

Hedy Lamarr Wiki

Answer 3

It means her parents were Jewish and were completed culturally integrated. That is... in all external ways, they were like their gentile neighbors, in dress, habits, friendships, language, etc. etc. This was often the case with upper class European Jewish families who had abandonned all outward manifestations of Judaism, including religious observance .....many converted to Christianity. The Nazis however, could care less, and did their best to eradicate them all, regardless of whether they considered themselves still Jews.