Original sentence: In their intolerance, the citizens of the Commonwealth now approached the "standards" that dominated most of the contemporary European countries, and many Jews felt betrayed by the country they once viewed as their haven.The Jews plight was compunded by the fact that Sejm, composed of nobility and Catholic clergy, blocked all attempts to levvy taxes on nobility or clergy, thus only townsfolk and Jews were taxed.The szlachta and the townsfolk were incresingly hostile to the Jews, as the religious tolerance that dominated the mentality of the previous generations of the Commonwealth citizens was slowly forgotten
Edited sentence: The Szlachta and the other classes of the urban population were extremely hostile to the Jews