From page 58 of Anti-Semitism Before the Holocaust by Albert S Lindemann regarding the 19th Century:
Jews in German lands were, at any rate, around ten times more numerous than in Britain, and the interplay of Jew and non-Jew was more remarkable in German-speaking lands than in the English-speaking ones. In some elusive but potent way, that interplay unleashed genius of simply spectacular dimensions. Any list of the most famous and influential intellects of European civilization between the French Revolution and the Nazi takeover would contain a strongly disproportionate number of German Jews…
