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The French-inspired revolutionary Swiss regime of 1798 did not, even during its brief life, show any real desire to give the few Jews in Switzerland legal equality. In the Austrian Empire, the government was fearful of the Revolution, and little was done in the 1790s that went beyond the several decrees of toleration that had been enacted in the spirit of enlightened absolutism by *Joseph II ...
Extract. For the Jews of France, as for their fellow countrymen, the French Revolution came to constitute the myth of origin, the birthdate of a new existence. On September 27, 1791, two years after the storming of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the French National Assembly voted to admit the Jews of Alsace-Lorraine to ...
- Jay R. Berkovitz
- 1995
The rights that fight in the Jew's favor are his rights in so far as he is a "man" and not a "Jew," and the Jews. themselves are not yet men. "They are men like us; they are this before they are Jews."21 Consequently, the Jews are outside of the human, and. the human is "us,"-namely Franco-Christian identity.
For the Jews of France, as for their fellow countrymen, the French. Revolution came to constitute the myth of origin, the birthdate of a new. existence. On September 27, 1791, two years after the storming of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the French National. Assembly voted to admit the Jews of Alsace-Lorraine to ...
FRENCH REVOLUTION AND EMANCIPATION OF JEWS 545 Bordeaux and were under the protection of the court or of great nobles whom they served. The Jews of Alsace were in a deplorable plight. Prob-ably in the whole of Jewish history there have been few communities living under such conditions. Practically the towns were hermetically sealed against them.
Abstract. This chapter considers whether the “emancipation” that the Revolution enacted was good or bad for the Jews. It asks why revolutionaries spent so
Feb 1, 2017 · The emancipation of the Jews in Italy and also beyond Italy in Malta, the Greek Ionian Islands, and Egypt, occurred in the years 1796–1800 in the wake of the setting up of revolutionary republics by the French Revolution, under the auspices of Napoleon in particular (who at this time outwardly comported himself as an ardent republican).
