I want to know the answer to the following question:
The lack of assimilation of Jews in central and eastern Europe lies in part to the fact that they lived almost exclusively in what?
All the background I'm provided with is that "The answer to why there was so little assimilation of Jews in central and eastern Europe for so long would seem to lie in part in the probability that the alien surroundings in central and eastern Europe were not conducive, though contempt did not prevent some assimilation.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no