Why did jesus teach/christianty appeal more to the hellanistic world than to his fellow jews?

Perhaps the Hellenes were further along some sort of religious scale than the Jews. Don't forget that at the time of the Maccabees, 163BC, Hellenic religion was very popular in Jerusalem, and temples to Zeus were cropping up. Perhaps the Jews were too monotheistic to accept the (essentially) polytheistic Christianity, where the pagan Hellenes were not.