Jewish Emancipation in the 18th and 19th Centuries

von by Friedrich Battenberg Original aufOriginal in German, angezeigt aufdisplayed in English▾
PublishedErschienen: 2017-08-25
    Print Drucken E-mailE-mail XML MetadataXML Metadaten   

    The emancipation of the Jews in Europe constitutes a historical process that lasted several centuries. Its roots reach back into the Age of Mercantilism and the Enlightenment but its completion in legal terms was only achieved in the late 19th century. Progress varied over time, depending on whether Sephardic or Ashkenazi communities were concerned, whether developed societal structures and an underlying liberal mood prevailed, as in the West, or agrarian-oriented forms with authoritarian governmental structures, as in the East. The emancipation of Jews was never completed in social terms.

    InhaltsverzeichnisTable of Contents

    Origins and preconditions

    The term emancipation1 was originally used during the early 19th century in association with the liberation of Jews from ghetto life.2 Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) spoke of it as one of the first in 1828:

    Was ist ... diese große Aufgabe unserer Zeit? Es ist die Emanzipation. Nicht bloß die der Irländer, Griechen, Frankfurter Juden, Westindischen, Schwarzen und dergleichen gedrückten Volkes, sondern es ist die Emanzipation der ganzen Welt, absonderlich Europas, das mündig geworden ist und sich jetzt losreißt von dem eisernen Gängelbande der Bevorrechteten der Aristokratie.3

    This word – originally a Roman legal term for freeing slaves4 – in this way came to refer to the social and legal release of disadvantaged groups from a state of bondage and, thus, became a fighting word of the bourgeoisie against the ruling aristocracy.5 Contemporary reform projects discussed in terms such as "naturalisation" and "civil improvement" were retroactively included. What was truly new, and for which the Heine quote stands here, was that Jewish emancipation was viewed as part of a Europe-wide development in which the bourgeois society would displace the premodern aristocratic society. Jews were not asked, as is claimed in the historical literature,6 to join the bourgeoisie but were in fact supposed to constitute it, as were many other disadvantaged groups.7

    Under the Ancien Régime, Jews, who were allotted to various protective relationships and could not participate in Christian corporations and governing institutions, were kept in a state of dependence across Europe under the influence of the theological doctrine of their inferior legal position. Insofar as they enjoyed autonomous rights, these were only granted to the extent to which they conformed to the interests of the rulers.8 After the Thirty Years' War, when epidemics and destruction led to new reflections in the interest of reconstruction, Jews everywhere became increasingly the focus of the authorities’ attention with a view toward their "usefulness". The ideas of Cameralism, which desired to achieve an increase of state revenues by utilising all groups of the population and, consequently, the economic strength of the country,9 brought about a first "emancipation push" for Jews. Furthermore, the Physiocratic teachings of François Quesnay (1694–1774), which had been spreading since the late 18th century, began to affect the situation of the Jews, since in 10, too, the previously exclusive orientation of Jews to trades was condemned and a "productive" agricultural occupation was demanded for Jews.11

    The first tangible result of mercantilist utilitarian thinking was the resettlement of Jews in various towns and countries in which they were previously forbidden to stay – specifically in with and under the Great Elector (1620–1688),12 but also at the instigation of the Lisbon Jew and Amsterdam Rabbi Menasse ben Israel (1604–1657), in under Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658).13 The legal situation improved in these two countries almost at the same time: In the General Ordinance (Generalreglement) came into force on 17 April 1750 under Friedrick II (1712–1786), which – though under very restrictive preconditions – envisioned a "general privileging" of (wealthy) Jews.14 In England, Parliament adopted the "Naturalization Bill" ("to permit persons professing the Jewish religion to be naturalised by Parliament") in 175315 – entirely in the spirit of the ideas presented by the Irish philosopher John Toland (1670–1722) in his Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland of 1714.16 Although it was often cited as a model in the later emancipation discourse, this "Anglo-Saxon type" of Jewish emancipation17 remained without influence on the emancipation legislation of the Continent, especially since the law was only partly followed and did not formally come into effect due to the resistance of the merchants.

    The historical process of a "proto-emancipation" was strengthened by another Europe-wide intellectual movement. It became known in the world of Christian scholars as the Enlightenment and in the internal Jewish sphere as the Haskalah.18 Its principal concern was to lead Judaism out of the (supposed) intellectual-cultural ghetto situation.19 This was a problem because a reform was hardly conceivable in traditional Jewish understanding: There was no idea of an "innocent, pure past" from which Jews had removed themselves over time and that needed to be restored.20

    Against the backdrop of the Enlightenment in the late 18th century, gradually "a discourse friendly to Jews that refuted old prejudices and replaced them with tolerance between humans" developed.21 Where it became effective, the opening of traditional Judaism towards Christian culture in was largely the work of Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786)[Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) IMG],22 who, in contact with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781)23 and reflecting the thought of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), undertook first steps in reinterpreting the Jewish religion as a rational religion without giving up the old traditions.24 This was reserved for the representatives of the second generation of the Haskalah. The Haskalah reached its climax with Mendelssohn's contemporaries Salomon Maimon (1753–1800) and Naphtali Herz (Hartwig) Wessely (1725–1805), who initiated a reform of Jewish education25 for which he sought guidance from the Hebrew Bible but rejected the Halachic26 legal system.27 The thought of the maskilim28 was not able to prevail in , and especially not in and , even though an independent Haskalah movement existed there, led by the Mendelssohn confident Rabbi Salomon Dubno (1738–1813) in .29 Instead, the pious Hassidim movement found a broad following and promoted the ghettoisation of what was later called Eastern Judaism. It became clear at the latest toward the end of the 18th century that the emancipation of the Jews would essentially remain confined to and Western Europe. In the autumn of 1772, after the first partition of Poland, Tsarina Catherine II (1729–1796)[J. Miller, Catherine II, Czarine of Russia, Kupferstich, Datum unbekannt. Quelle: Wellcome Library, London, Slide number 6170, http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0011250.html, Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC-BY 4.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.] granted equality with the urban estates to Jews who had just become Russian subjects based on an enlightened-mercantilistic doctrine of the state but this gesture also remained ineffective over the long term.30 When the equality of Russian Jews was finally decreed in 1917, it was not the result of traditional shtetl culture opening up. By contrast, in the West, the emancipation of Jews resulted in the collapse of traditional Jewish society.31

    The "civil improvement" of Jews

    Apart from the particular British development, which was barely noticed on the Continent, the emancipation of the Jews emanated from Central Europe, specifically in the discourse of princely officialdom, which had an interest in involving Jews in Christian-oriented society. Many officials who were involved as official commissioners in the country's Jewish corporations32 became aware of Jewish culture, which was backward by the standards of the age, and attributed their misery to the policy of suppression by Christian authorities. The by far most influential comment on the subject was written by Christian Konrad Wilhelm von Dohm (1751–1820)[Christian Wilhelm von Dohm IMG], a Prussian official of the War Ministry, who in the years 1781 and 1783 published at the personal suggestion of Moses Mendelssohn a two-part treatise with the title Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Juden.33 It lent its name to the discourse among Christian and Jewish intellectuals with which they strove for a gradual adaptation of Jewish rights to those of the societal majority through education (enlightened-statist concept of Jewish emancipation).34 The basic assumption was the thesis argued since Mercantilism and amplified by the Enlightenment "dass die Juden ebenso gut wie alle andre Menschen nützliche Glieder der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft seyn können".35 That Dohm was not altogether able to detach himself from the old traditions – and thus agreed with Mendelssohn – is evident from the following key quote:

    Die Drückung, in der sie [die Juden] bisher gelebt, ist schuld, daß sie in den Wissenschaften und schönen Künsten nichts mehr gethan haben. ... Der moralische Charakter der Juden ist, so wie der aller anderen Menschen, der vollkommensten Ausbildung und der unglücklichsten Verwilderung fähig, und der Einfluß der äußeren Lage ... hiebey nur zu sichtbar. Wenn man indeß zugiebt, daß die Juden in gewisser Absicht sittlich verderbt sind, so muß es doch auch dem unpartheyischen Beobachter einleuchten, daß sie durch manche andere Vorzüge sich desto vortheilhafter auszeichnen.36

    Dohm then presented his readers with "ideas, how the Jews could become happier and better members of civil society" in the form of a nine-point programme.37 For this purpose, he considered educational measures the best suited means for improving the social situation of Jews, which was to follow their legal equalisation while preserving autonomous community rights. Entirely in the spirit of the Physiocratic teachings, he recommended agrarian and "productive" artisanal occupation while turning them away from pawn brokerage. But Christian subjects, too, should be taught from their early youth that "Jews should be considered as their brothers and fellow humans who are attempting to find God's favour by another route".38

    Dohm's treatise, along with other contemporary reform pamphlets, sparked a lively discussion among the Enlightenment-inspired officialdom of the German states and at the princely courts on the extent of the special facilities allowed to Jews, including possible organisational changes.39 Count Mirabeau (1749–1791), who was a French secret agent in Berlin in 1786/1787, saw to it after an encounter with Dohm that his thoughts would also gain a foothold in .40 With his text published in 1787, Sur Moses Mendelssohn, sur la réforme politique des JuifsSur Moses Mendelssohn Titelblatt IMG, he took up with reference to the English Naturalization Bill of 1753 the old idea of turning the Jews into useful citizens (citoyens utiles) in order to give them civil rights (les droits de citoyens). Even though the enlightened-statist concept of Jewish emancipation lost influence in France with Mirabeau's death, it nevertheless provided the impetus for the actual emancipation debate.

    The Enlightenment discourse of the officialdom in the Austrian hereditary lands under emperor Joseph II (1741–1790)41 had an immediate effect on the legislation – if one ignores the numerous individual decrees and police ordinances (Policeyverordnungen) of the German states. The so-called Tolerance Patents he issued in the years 1781 to 1789, separately for each of , , , and , aimed at leading the Jews from their occupational, social and cultural isolation and showing them the way to a better future.42 Discrimination of clothing and the personal tax (Leibzoll) were to be abolished, admission to the trades permitted, restrictions on residency voided and education in schools adapted to that of Christians. However, restrictions on practising religion remained for the time being and their legal status remained that of Protected Jews (Schutzjudentum). At least, they were permanently tolerated as "foreign kin in religion". Jews welcomed the changes and Herz Wessely recommended to his coreligionists that they abide by them.43

    The emancipation of Jews during the French Revolution

    The French Revolution brought about a turning point in the debate and created new facts.44 But even in France the path forward was difficult. The process was set in motion by the complaints (cahiers de doléances) of the Jews of and and those of the Trois-Évêchés (the three bishoprics of , and ) who knew the writings of Dohm, Mirabeau, Chrétien-Guillaume de Malesherbe (1721–1794) and Abbé Grégoire (1750–1831). They took the concept of a "civil improvement" as the grounds for demanding an end to the existing discrimination. While the country's Catholic clergy rejected any equalization because it amounted to a recognition of the Jewish religion,45 the Protestant clergy, who felt themselves to be discriminated against, specifically Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne (1743–1793), spoke for the legal equality of the Jews.46 Although the Declaration of Human Rights of 26 August 1789 declared the freedom of practicing religion, Jews remained excluded from this47 – excepting a few Sephardic Jews in the south of the country (Juifs du et ),48 who in any case enjoyed a much more favourable legal and social status and did not demand autonomy for their communities. The speaker for the Jews of Alsace and Lorraine (Juifs de l'Est), Berr Isaak-Berr (fl. 1744–1828) of Nancy, who was in contact with Mendelssohn, was not able to succeed with his réforme civile49 while having the continuing autonomy of the communities recognized. Mirabeau's death in April 1791 deprived him of his most important ally.

    The emancipation of the Jews was only achieved in the last session of the National Assembly on 27 September 1791 and only after the preceding demands for communal autonomy had been given up.50 A famous speech by the Parisian deputy Anne Antoine Jules Clermont-Tonnerre (1749–1830) in December 1789, in which he demanded as the consequence of the Declaration of Human Rights that emancipation could only be given to Jews as individuals but not to Jews as a community, had preceded it.51 They could form neither a corporation nor a class within the state but were to be individual citizens.52 Only when the Jews of Alsace and Lorraine waived all previous corporate rights and raised the prospect of a considerable financial redemption, and only after the deputy Michel Louis Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély (1761–1819) linked the existence of the Revolutionary Constitution to granting Jewish emancipation53 did the Jews receive the Decree of Emancipation they had desired in vain for so long. This document stated, for example:

    [The National Assembly] voids all previously issued decrees with regard to contractual determinations, clauses and exemptions relating to Jews by determining at the same time that the citizen's oath to be sworn by the Jews will be treated as a rejection of all privileges and special laws formerly granted in their favour.54

    On 13 November, King Louis XVI (1754–1793) proclaimed the Decree law. A letter to a Berlin merchant of the "Jewish nation" reprinted in the newspaper Vossische Zeitung in 1791 impressively demonstrates the Europe-wide effect of this declaration with which "all Jews of the French realm without exception or restriction, had been granted the rights of active citizens".55 The Decree even received an eschatological interpretation with a reference to the prophet Zephaniah. This enthusiasm was expressed in several fraternization celebrations between Jews and Christians.56

    Scholars have called the concept behind the French decree "liberal-revolutionary"57 to show that the emancipation of the Jews was granted without prior service and immediately, but only within the context of the idea of a general citizenry of liberal character. However, Hanns Reißner (1902–1977) in a paper barely noticed in historical scholarship saw that social issues of integration were by no means solved in this way. The Declaration of Emancipation of 1791 supposedly was "a gesture that does them [the deputies of the National Assembly] credit as human beings but was politically insufficient because the social question to be solved in Alsace was barely addressed".58 Therefore, the Decree of Emancipation was no more than an offer of reform, the implementation of which was left to social forces. The National Assembly did not approve and, because of its ideology geared toward the individual citizen, could not approve recognizing Jews as a social group with its own identity.59 At the latest, the Napoleonic decrees of 17 March 1808 (among them the notorious Décret Infâme), with which the freedom of movement and freedom of trade of Jews was cancelled,60 showed that the emancipation of Jews during the French Revolution had failed.61 Nevertheless, this idea, once born, radiated strongly in the territories of the perishing . The Decree of Emancipation of 1791 set a historical process in motion through which Europe's Jews gradually escaped "their legal, ritual and social isolation" and, while losing their autonomy, received "an improved legal status and growing moral legitimacy".62

    Emancipation efforts to the Congress of Vienna

    French revolutionary armies carried the ideas of Jewish emancipation of a revolutionary-liberal character into the states of the .63 Gradually, most Central European states received emancipation laws that were based with varying degrees of faithfulness on the French model. Already in 1795, the newly created Batavian Republic () received civil rights for its Jews, while voiding the special rights applicable to the local Sephardim, and had them confirmed by its National Assembly in 1796.64 Under King Louis Bonaparte (1778–1846), the situation of Jews in the newly elevated kingdom improved with the laws of 1808/1809. Thus, the so-called Jewish oath (more judaico)Der Judeneid IMG, which Jews had to take in legal disputes with non-Jews in an often discriminating form, was abolished.65 When in 1813 King William I of Orange (1772–1843) gained power, he confirmed the civil rights of the Jews.66 Even more significant was the Decree of Emancipation granted by Jérôme Bonaparte (1784–1860) to the Jews of the on 27 January 1808, according to which all "our subjects devoted to the Religion of Moses, ... [shall] enjoy in our states the same rights and freedoms as our other subjects" while at the same time cancelling all special renders "no matter at what occasion they were introduced and under what name they may be present".67 The "Ordinance of Berg" of 22 July 1808 and later decrees granted Jewish subjects of the , ruled by Joachim Murat (1767–1815), extensive civil rights.68 All these emancipation laws deviated from the French model by again allowing corporate rights that bound Jewish communities into a new consistorial constitution of Napoleonic character. Finally, after the military victories of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)[Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) IMG], the Constitution of the of 22 July 1807 included the equalization of Polish Jews – though it only lasted for a brief period.69

    Other important emancipation laws in the area of the Rhenian Federation were issued on 13 January 1809 by the Grand Duchy of 70 and on 28 December 1811 – against a financial redemption – by the Grand Duchy of , though only the latter was guided by the liberal-revolutionary French example.71 However, the most significant was the emancipation law of 11 March 1812 in the Kingdom of Prussia, conceived by state chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg (1750–1822) and based on the liberal ideas of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835),72 because it was effective beyond the Napoleonic period.73 Jews living at that time in Prussian territory were subjected as citizens to the Prussian Civil Code (Allgemeines Preußisches Landrecht) though not yet admitted to offices of state. A law – though never proclaimed – was to make new regulations in this regard. This law, despite continuing humiliating exemption clauses,74 directly took up Dohm's proposals for reform75 and marked a turning point in the history of German Jews,76 who correctly received it with enthusiasm.77

    Other important emancipation laws of the Napoleonic period78 were issued on 22 February 1813 by the Grand Duchy of ,79 on 10 June 1813 by the Kingdom of ,80 on 29 March 1814 by the Kingdom of 81 and as late as 28 February 1815 by the Principality of .82 They were all distinguished by following the ideas of the French emancipation of Jews in time but returning to the German model of "civil improvement" and, thus, the enlightened-statist concept.

    Setbacks and advances in the Reactionary Period

    Already in the Napoleonic period, there were signs of a "return of repressed attitudes";83 as the ideas of the French Revolution spread by Napoleon's troops were received with growing reluctance after the defeat of the European powers by the Emperor in 1806. The assembly of princes at the Congress of in 1814/1815, which was guided by the idea of restoring the old order, was not able to reverse all progress in the equalization of Europe's Jews but the victory over Napoleon led to a change of tide in the world of European states.84 Dohm's "concept of merit", which only sought to grant Jews emancipation after they had provided advance service,85 was revalidated. However, it cannot be overlooked that many small Jewish communities persisted in a tradition of solidarity and, consequently, lacked interest in opening up to Christian society.86 The intention of Wilhelm von Humboldt to commit the Congress to emancipating Jews according to the Prussian model failed because the opposing forces were too strong. Even the minimal demand of fixing the status quo in writing, as envisioned by a preparatory committee for developing the federal constitution, failed.87 In the proposal developed by the delegates of Prussia and Austria, according to which "adherents of the [Jewish] faith... will receive the same rights as already granted in individual states of the Federation" (§ 16), the formulation "in individual states of the Federation" was replaced by the words "by individual states of the Federation" through the intervention of the senator of Bremen Johann Smidt (1773–1857).88 Since the French state, and not the German states, had emancipated the Jews, this resulted in all emancipation decrees inspired by the French Revolution being considered obsolete. Even a few regulations granting Jews limited civil rights that were uninfluenced by it, as in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg,89 were repealed or interpreted in a restrictive manner by differentiating between a (granted) state citizenship and a (refused) communal citizenship as, for example, in the Edict of Baden in 1809.90 Prussia not only refused Jews access to state service, as still envisioned in 1812, but the edict's validity was confined to the old provinces,91 with the consequence that in the newly acquired territories citizenship was completely denied to Jews or – as after 1833 in the province of – granted as a right to be given upon individual application.92 Only the law passed on 23 July 1847 by the United Diet (Vereinigter Landtag) "über die Verhältnisse der Juden"93 recognized (with the exception of the Province of Posen) equal rights for all Prussian Jews according to the Edict of 1812. However, it explicitly excluded Jews from performing sovereign duties.94 The Décret Infâme of 17 March 1808, which still applied in Prussian territories on the left bank of the Rhine, was finally repealed.95

    Other states of the German Federation, among them the Grand Duchy of , made the same distinction Prussia did: The constitution of 17 December 1820 only envisioned granting citizenship to individuals, though the municipal regulation of 9 July 1821 at least permitted municipal citizenship (Ortsbürgerrecht).96 This system of "citizenship on application" (Bürgerrecht auf Antrag) in its various manifestations became the prevailing principle among the states of the German Federation.97 The Electorate of Hesse occupied a special position. The Ordinance of 14 May 1816 granted Jews civil rights on application (next to which the old Protected Jewry remained),98 but with the Law of 29 October 1833 they essentially enjoyed the same rights as the Christian subjects – though excepting rights based on religion and excluding "peddlers" (Nothändler, door-to-door salesmen).99 The kingdom of Bavaria upheld the status quo of its Jewish edict of 1813 and also introduced it in its newly acquired territories, the Grand Duchy of and the Principality of , with the Law of 5 December 1816.100 Jews in the Kingdom of received civil rights in 1842.101

    The situation was not much different in the European states outside the German Federation. A petition presented in April 1830 for introducing citizenship rights for English Jews intended to grant them the same emancipation given to Catholics in 1829 but was rejected by the British Parliament.102 After the retreat of the French, the old order was for most part restored in the Italian territories. This applied particularly to territories that had become Austrian, specifically and , but especially to the , in which Pope Leo XII (1760–1829) ghettoized Jews again and subjected them to the jurisdiction of the Inquisition.103 Only the Duchy of and the Grand Duchy of stayed the course with the emancipation laws of the Napoleonic period.104 In France itself, at least the discriminating oath more judaico was abolished in court proceedings in 1846, on application by the later justice minister Adolphe Crémieux (1796–1880),105 after the Kingdom of Denmark led the way in 1843.106 In under Tsar Nicolas I (1796–1855) grave repressive measures were implemented, among which the Cantonist Decrees107 with their obvious intention of forcibly converting all Jews were the most intrusive.108

    Against the background of the conservative idea of a "Christian State", theoretically founded especially by the baptized Jew Friedrich Julius Stahl (1802–1861),109 the discourse on the equality of Jews went on the defensive. It is to the credit of individuals such as the Hamburg publisher Gabriel Riesser (1806–1863)[Gabriel Riesser (1806–1863) IMG]that the "Jewish question" remained active and a gradual shift in awareness in favour of Jewish emancipation came about.110 In Russia it was Rabbi Dr. Max Lilienthal (1815–1882)[Max Lilienthal (1815–1882) IMG]of Munich, who on behalf of the open-minded Minister for Popular Enlightenment, Count Sergey Uvarov (1786–1855), achieved an improvement of the education system for Jews in the 1840s and was able to implement numerous individual reforms until his dismissal in 1845.111

    The Revolution of 1848 and its consequences

    The actual impetus for the definitive emancipation of Jews in the sense of the ideas of the French Revolution was brought about across Europe by the Revolution of 1848 – despite the fact that the constitutional reform associated with it initially failed.112 Gabriel Riesser, the liberal Hamburg delegate to the Frankfurt National Assembly, lit the spark for a constitutional emancipation of Jews with his famous speech of 29 August 1848.113 His argument that the demand for general freedom and equality must necessarily include Jews, whose religion was to be considered a private matter, convinced the majority of delegates. In December of that year, the "Fundamental Rights of the German People" were adopted, of which § 16 determined:

    Durch das religiöse Bekenntnis wird der Genuß der bürgerlichen und staatsbürgerlichen Rechte weder bedingt noch beschränkt. Den staatsbürgerlichen Pflichten darf dasselbe keinen Abbruch tun.114

    Thus, Jews had been allowed a legal claim to an equal stake in all rights due to Christians, which was equivalent to comprehensive legal emancipation. Immediately after the definitive constitution proclaimed in March 1849 in St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt and in the context of a sustained revolutionary mood, a total of 20 states of the German Federation passed similar equalization laws. These were the three Anhalt states as well as , , , , Hanover, Hesse-Darmstadt, , , the Electorate of Hesse,115 , , Mecklenburg-Schwerin, ,116 , Prussia, and . There were minor restrictions in the other states of the Federation, such as the limitation of citizenship rights to "Inlanders" in Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and or the restriction on municipal citizenship rights, as in Baden. Only Bavaria and did not follow this trend. Thus, there was the justified hope that the emancipation of Jews would soon be completed.

    With the revival of the Federal Diet in 1850 by , there were new setbacks and in many places the laws passed in 1848/1849 were annulled. The Electorate of Hesse may serve as an example: Its constitution of 1852 annulled the law on religious freedom passed in October 1848 and determined instead:

    Der Genuß der bürgerlichen und staatsbürgerlichen Rechte ist von dem christlichen Glaubensbekenntnis abhängig, vorbehaltlich derjenigen Ausnahmen, welche durch besondere Gesetze bestimmt sind.117

    This restriction was supplemented by reintroducing the discrimination against "peddlers", which had been decreed in 1833.118

    The other states of the German Federation also reintroduced discriminating barriers. Of the 26 states that during the March Revolution of 1848 worked on or completed emancipation legislation, only five were willing to retain them fully: Lübeck, Brunswick, Nassau, Oldenburg and Hesse-Homburg. Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, the Kingdom of Saxony and the Grand Duchy of at least retained equality limited to domestic Jews.119 Hamburg, Hesse-Darmstadt and Baden delayed the emancipation of Jews for the time being. The new constitution of 12 April 1852 pushed through by the conservative minister of state Ludwig Hassenpflug (1794–1862) made the Christian faith a precondition for equality.120 This also applied to Austria-Hungary, where the Imperial Decree of October 1853 revoked equalization "bis zur definitiven Regelung der staatsbürgerlichen Verhältnisse der israelitischen Bevölkerung".121 However, the greater number of Jews living within the German Federation (in Prussia, Electorate Hesse, Hanover, Württemberg, Holstein, Schaumburg-Lippe, Waldeck-Pyrmont and Mecklenburg) lost any claim to equality.122

    Over the long run, a policy of legal exclusion that made Jews second-class citizens or even protected subjects with diminished rights could not be continued.123 A spark to light the flame was a law that cancelled existing discrimination in 1858 after long Parliamentary debates and sustained resistance in the British Upper House. Jewish delegates were no longer to be forced to take a Christian oath to be able to take their seat in the Lower House.124 In the territories of the German Federation, the city states Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main took the first step in 1859 and 1864 by cancelling the emancipation-restricting articles.125 Furthermore, the discriminatory Jewish Oath was abolished, as in 1861 in the Duchy of Nassau.126 The Grand Duchy of Baden granted the complete emancipation of Jews in 1862 with a "Gesetz über die bürgerliche Gleichstellung der Israeliten".127 Emancipation laws had been passed in almost all German states by the middle of the 1860s. Even the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1861, in association with lifting the trade restrictions on Jews and a reform of the old matriculation system (limits on admission), announced further reforms that raised hopes of complete emancipation.128

    It was due to the tireless public work of the Berlin publisher Ludwig Philippson (1811–1889) but also the new balance of political power in the German Federation after the defeat of Austria-Hungary during the Austro-Prussian War that in the newly founded comprehensive Jewish emancipation was granted. After long parliamentary negotiations, the Prussian minister president Otto Graf von Bismarck (1815–1898), the later Imperial chancellor, agreed to a legal initiative to this effect since he hoped to win over the liberal delegates with a minor concession. The "Law concerning the equality of the denominations with regard to civil and citizenship rights" (Gesetz betreffend die Gleichberechtigung der Konfessionen in bürgerlicher und staatsbürgerlicher Beziehung) of 3 July 1869 included the following words:

    Wir Wilhelm ... König von Preußen, verordnen im Namen des Norddeutschen Bundes ... was folgt: Alle noch bestehenden, aus der Verschiedenheit des religiösen Bekenntnisses hergeleiteten Beschränkungen der bürgerlichen und staatsbürgerlichen Rechte werden hierdurch aufgehoben. Insbesondere soll die Befähigung zur Theilnahme an der Gemeinde- und Landesvertretung und zur Bekleidung öffentlicher Ämter vom religiösen Bekenntniß unabhängig sein.129

    On 22 April 1871 this law was introduced in the entire territory of the new German empire and, thus, even in the Kingdom of Bavaria, which as the only state of the Federation had not yet introduced a law of this kind.130

    The process of emancipation was also completed in the other states of Central and Western Europe during the sixties and seventies of the 19th century. Legal equality was established in the Austro-Hungarian Empire with the new constitution of 1867. In , the emancipation process was also associated with the new constitution of the unified state. Starting in 1859, the emancipation of Jews was extended in steps in the Kingdom of , equality was also achieved in unified Italy starting in 1861 and in 1866 in the new Italian Province of Venetia.131 In 1871 the equality of Jews was introduced in the territory of the Papal State, which had then become Italian.132 , as the last Central European state, followed with its Federal Constitution of 1874. This must only be qualified by the fact that the Federal Council (Bundesrat) needed to enforce equality in the cantons up to 1879 to validate the constitution.133 The Kingdoms of and , which were united in personal union, as the only Central and North European countries, did not have a one-time emancipation decree because the Jews in these two countries had been granted individual civil rights in stages since 1782. Starting from 1891, state offices were also open to them, with which the development of Jewish emancipation had been completed in these countries.134 In France, no further legal steps were required for the equality of Jews because Napoleon's restrictive edicts of 17 March 1808 had already been abolished with the end of his rule.135

    The problems in Tsarist Russia were far greater but change came about during the "spring days" under Tsar Alexander II (1818–1881), a known liberal who ascended in 1855.136 He instituted a commission immediately at the start of his reign with the objective of "…sämtliche in Bezug auf die Juden bestehenden Bestimmungen [zu überprüfen], um sie dem allgemeinen Zweck anzupassen, dieses Volk in die angestammte Bevölkerung einzugliedern, soweit der sittliche Zustand der Juden dies erlaubt". The result of these efforts was the cancellation of the discriminating Cantonist Decrees of 1856. Jews were then successively admitted to public offices and granted for the most part freedom of residency and freedom of trade. In Congress Poland, which then belonged to Russia, Jews received further rights in 1862, such as the right to acquire property and to reside in towns. However, these rights became obsolete again after the Polish uprising of 1863.137 The murder of the "Tsar Liberator" Alexander in 1881 abruptly ended this liberal era: The subsequent anti-Semitic pogroms resulted in a discontinuation of emancipation efforts for the time being and, simultaneously, the genesis of Zionism, which has cast a long shadow.

    The completion of this development on a pan-European level was the treaty designed by Bismarck at the Berlin Congress of 1878. The representatives of the great European powers had gathered in Berlin at the invitation of the German imperial chancellor to discuss the situation after the Russo-Turkish War. Representatives of the Jewish communities of Romania, who had come under pressure from the openly anti-Jewish policy of their government, turned to the Congress with the plea to force the Romanian government to be tolerant toward Jews. Article 44 of the Treaty was formulated following up on a French suggestion, to make the diplomatic recognition of the three new Balkan states of , and dependent on a special declaration of the equality of Jews:

    Die Verschiedenheit der Religionen und Bekenntnisse darf nirgends und niemand gegenüber als ein Grund der Ausschließung und Unfähigkeit geltend gemacht werden in allen denjenigen Fällen, in denen es sich um den Genuß von bürgerlichen und staatsbürgerlichen Rechten, um die Zulassung zu öffentlichen Ämtern und Ehrenstellen und um die Ausübung der verschiedenen Handwerke und Gewerbe handelt.138

    Thus, the concept of emancipation was for the first time included in a treaty binding under international law at the European level. The equality of Jews with the Christian citizens of the European states thus became the rule after the model of the German imperial constitution. Merely the Tsarist empire of Russia did not live up to the resulting obligations in this time period.

    Although Jews were able to achieve legal equality during the seventies and eighties of the 19th century in almost all Christian European states139 in which they lived,140 social emancipation and, thus, their integration into the respective national populations had by no means occurred.141 It is one of the contradictions of emancipation history that the liberal-revolutionary model of individual equality of the revolutionary law of 1791, which went furthest, had the least chance of implementation because it did not account for the social sensitivities of Jews or Christians and disregarded the need for solidarising community. By contrast, the enlightened-statist model, which assumed the objective of the "civil improvement of Jews" and only granted equality successively and after the acquisition of merit, dominated discourse and legislation outside of France. That the French model nevertheless prevailed in the liberal model of the Constitution of St. Paul's Church, the Imperial Constitution of 1871 and, finally, the Congress of Berlin in 1878 owed a great deal in the end to the political experience collected over almost a century. Modern anti-Semitism picked up precisely where the emancipation of the Jews had been granted completely and without conditions – this does not come as a surprise against the background of the controversies in the 19th century over the extent of Jewish emancipation.142

    Friedrich Battenberg

    Appendix

    Sources

    Dohm, Christian Konrad Wilhelm von: Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Juden: 2 Teile in einem Band, Berlin et al. 1781, online: http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/dohm/ueber (2023-11-16).

    Haberkorn, Peter: Der lange Weg zur Gleichberechtigung: Die Emanzipation der Juden im Herzogtum Nassau 1806–1866: Eine Dokumentation, Wiesbaden 2004 (Schriften der Kommission für die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen 20).

    Heinemann, Jeremias: Sammlung der die religiöse und bürgerliche Verfassung der Juden in den Königlich-Preußischen Staaten betreffenden Gesetze, Verordnungen, Gutachten, Berichte und Erkenntnisse, mit einem Anhang, welcher Gesetze fremder Staaten enthält, reprint, Hildesheim 1976.

    Herzig, Arno: Jüdische Quellen zur Reform und Akkulturation der Juden in Westfalen, Münster 2005 (Quellen und Forschungen zur jüdischen Geschichte in Westfalen 1).

    Marcus, Jacob R.: The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book: 315–1791, New York 1983.

    Literature

    Allerhand, Jacob: Das Judentum in der Aufklärung, Stuttgart 1980.

    Altmann, Alexander: Moses Mendelssohn: A biographical Study, Philadelphia 1973.

    Badinter, Robert: Libres et Égaux …: L'émancipation des Juifs sous la Révolution française (1789–1791), Paris 1989.

    Bartal, Israel: Geschichte der Juden im östlichen Europa 1772–1881, Göttingen 2010.

    Battenberg, J. Friedrich: Das Europäische Zeitalter der Juden: Zur Entwicklung einer Minderheit in der nichtjüdischen Umwelt Europas 2: Von 1650 bis 1945, 2nd ed., Darmstadt 2000.

    Battenberg, J. Friedrich: Die Französische Revolution und die Emanzipation der Juden im Elsaß und in Lothringen, in: Volker Rödel (ed.): Die Französische Revolution und die Oberrheinlande (1789–1798), Sigmaringen 1991 (Oberrheinische Studien 9), pp. 245–273.

    Battenberg, J. Friedrich: Fürstliche Ansiedlungspolitik und Landjudenschaft im 17./18. Jahrhundert: Merkantilistische Politik und Juden im Bereich von Sachsen-Anhalt, in: ASCHKENAS 11 (2001), pp. 59–85.

    Battenberg, J. Friedrich: Die Juden in Deutschland vom 16. bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich 2001 (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte 60).

    Battenberg, J. Friedrich: Judenverordnungen in Hessen-Darmstadt: Das Judenrecht eines Reichsfürstentums bis zum Ende des Alten Reiches: Eine Dokumentation, Wiesbaden 1987 (Schriften der Kommission für die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen 8).

    Battenberg, J. Friedrich: Die jüdischen Gemeinden und Landjudenschaften im Heiligen Römischen Reich: Zwischen landesherrlicher Kontrolle und Autonomie, in: Helmut Neuhaus (ed.): Selbstverwaltung in der Geschichte Europas in Mittelalter und Neuzeit, Berlin 2010 (Der Staat, Supplement 19), pp. 101–142.

    Battenberg, J. Friedrich: Tolerierte Juden in Berlin: Zur Ansiedlung Wiener Juden in der Mark Brandenburg unter dem Großen Kurfürsten, in: Jörg Deventer et al. (ed.): Zeitenwenden: Herrschaft, Selbstbehauptung und Integration zwischen Reformation und Liberalismus: Festgabe für Arno Herzig zum 65. Geburtstag, Münster 2002, pp. 71–91.

    Battenberg, J. Friedrich: Die verzögerte Emanzipation der Juden in der Grafschaft Erbach, in: Archiv für hessische Geschichte NF 55 (1997), pp. 63–92.

    Battenberg, J. Friedrich: Zur Geschichte der Judenemanzipation in der Französischen Revolution, in: Hans-Christoph Schröder et al. (ed.): Aspekte der Französischen Revolution, Darmstadt 1992 (Wissenschaft und Technik 55), pp. 59–109.

    Benbassa, Esther: Frankreich, in: Elke-Vera Kotowski et al. (ed.): Handbuch zur Geschichte der Juden in Europa 1: Länder und Regionen, Darmstadt 2001, pp. 387–418.

    Berding, Helmut: Imperiale Herrschaft, politische Reform und gesellschaftlicher Wandel, in: König Lustik!? Jérôme Bonaparte und der Modellstaat Königreich Westphalen, Munich 2008 (Kataloge der Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel 29), pp. 107–112.

    Berghahn, Klaus L.: Grenzen der Toleranz: Juden und Christen im Zeitalter der Aufklärung, Cologne et al. 2000.

    Berkovitz, Jay R.: Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France 1650–1860, Philadelphia 2004.

    Bernhardt, Hans-Michael: Bewegung und Beharrung: Studien zur Emanzipationsgeschichte der Juden im Großherzogtum Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1813–1869, Hanover 1998 (Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden A 7).

    Böhn, Georg Friedrich (ed.): Zur rechtlichen Situation der Juden im 18. Jahrhundert, Koblenz 1982 (Dokumentation zur Geschichte der jüdischen Bevölkerung in Rheinland-Pfalz und im Saarland von 1800 bis 1945 1), pp. 1–66.

    Borchsenius, Poul: The Chains Are Broken: The Story of Jewish Emancipation, London 1964.

    Botstein, Leon: Emanzipation und Assimilation: Die Auswirkungen der aufklärerischen Tradition im 19. Jahrhundert, in: Leon Botstein: Judentum und Modernität: Essays zur Rolle der Juden in der deutschen und österreichischen Kultur 1848 bis 1938, Vienna et al. 1991, pp. 20–29.

    Bourel, Dominique: Moses Mendelssohn: Begründer des modernen Judentums, Zurich 2007.

    Brammer, Annegret H.: Judenpolitik und Judengesetzgebung in Preußen 1812 bis 1847, mit einem Ausblick auf das Gleichberechtigungsgesetz des Norddeutschen Bundes von 1869, Berlin 1987.

    Brenner, Michael / Jersch-Wenzel, Stefi / Meyer, Michael A.: Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte in der Neuzeit II: Emanzipation und Akkulturation 1780–1871, Munich 1996.

    Bruer, Albert A.: Geschichte der Juden in Preußen (1750–1820), Frankfurt am Main et al. 1991.

    Bucher, Editha (ed.): Die Juden in der Französischen Zeit von 1798/1801 bis 1814, Koblenz 1982 (Dokumentation zur Geschichte der jüdischen Bevölkerung in Rheinland-Pfalz und im Saarland von 1800 bis 1945 1), pp. 67–282.

    Doll, Anton et al. (ed.): Der Weg zur Gleichberechtigung der Juden, Koblenz 1979 (Dokumentation zur Geschichte der jüdischen Bevölkerung in Rheinland-Pfalz und im Saarland von 1800 bis 1945 2).

    Eissing, Uwe: Zwischen Emanzipation und Beharrung: Studien zum Ort und Kontext des Schicksals der jüdischen Gemeinde Papenburg-Aschendorf, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1991 (Europäische Hochschulschriften III 476).

    Erb, Rainer / Bergmann, Werner: Die Nachtseite der Judenemanzipation: Der Widerstand gegen die Integration der Juden in Deutschland 1780–1860, Berlin 1989.

    Feiner, Shmuel: Moses Mendelssohn: Ein jüdischer Denker in der Zeit der Aufklärung, Göttingen 2009.

    Feiner, Shmuel: The Jewish Enlightenment, Philadelphia 2004.

    Feuerwerker, David: L'émancipation des Juifs en France de l'Ancien Régime à la fin du Second Empire, Paris 1976.

    Fleermann, Bastian: Marginalisierung und Emanzipation: Jüdische Alltagskultur im Herzogtum Berg 1770–1847, Neustadt an der Aisch 2007 (Bergische Forschungen 30).

    Freund, Ismar: Die Emanzipation der Juden in Preußen, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Gesetzes vom 11. März 1812: Ein Beitrag zur Rechtsgeschichte der Juden in Preußen, vols. 1 (Darstellung) and 2 (Urkunden), Berlin 1912.

    Fuks-Mansfeld, Renate G.: Enlightenment and Emancipation, from c. 1750 to 1814, in: J.C.H. Blom et al. (ed.): The History of the Jews in the Netherlands, Oxford et al. 2002, pp. 164–191.

    Fuks-Mansfeld, Renate G.: Die Niederlande, in: Elke-Vera Kotowski et al. (ed.): Handbuch zur Geschichte der Juden in Europa 1: Länder und Regionen, Darmstadt 2001, pp. 419–439.

    Funkenstein, Amos: Jüdische Geschichte und ihre Deutungen, Frankfurt am Main 1995.

    Gehring-Münzel, Ursula: Vom Schutzjuden zum Staatsbürger: Die gesellschaftliche Integration der Würzburger Juden 1803–1871, Würzburg 1992 (Veröffentlichungen des Stadtarchivs Würzburg 6).

    Gerson, Daniel: Die Kehrseite der Emanzipation in Frankreich: Judenfeindschaft im Elsass 1778 bis 1848, Essen 2006 (Antisemitismus: Geschichte und Strukturen 1).

    Girard, Patrick: Les Juifs de France de 1789 à 1860: de l'émancipation à l'égalité, Paris 1976.

    Gotzmann, Andreas: Eigenheit und Einheit: Modernisierungsdiskurse des deutschen Judentums der Emanzipationszeit, Leiden et al. 2002 (Studies in European Judaism 2).

    Grab, Walter: Der deutsche Weg der Judenemanzipation 1789–1938, Munich et al. 1991.

    Grab, Walter: Der preußisch-deutsche Weg der Judenemanzipation, in: Franz J. Bautz (ed.): Geschichte der Juden, Munich 1987, pp. 140–164.

    Grass, Karl Martin: Art: "Emanzipation", in: Otto Brunner et al. (ed.): Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Historisches Lexikon zur politisch-sozialen Sprache in Deutschland, reprint, Stuttgart 1979, pp. 153–197.

    Gründer, Karlfried (ed.): Aufklärung und Haskala in jüdischer und nichtjüdischer Sicht, Heidelberg 1990 (Wolfenbütteler Studien zur Aufklärung 14).

    Guetta, Allessandro / Luzzati, Michele / Weinstein, Roni: Italien, in: Elke-Vera Kotowski et al. (ed.): Handbuch zur Geschichte der Juden in Europa 1: Länder und Regionen, Darmstadt 2001, pp. 350–383.

    Hentsch, Gerhard: Gewerbeordnung und Emanzipation der Juden im Kurfürstentum Hessen, Wiesbaden 1979 (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen IV).

    Hertzberg, Arthur: The French Enlightenment and the Jews: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism, New York et al. 1968.

    Herzig, Arno: Gabriel Riesser, Hamburg 2008.

    Herzig, Arno et al. (ed.): Judentum und Aufklärung: Jüdisches Selbstverständnis in der bürgerlichen Öffentlichkeit, Göttingen 2002.

    Heuberger, Rachel / Krohn, Helga: Hinaus aus dem Ghetto ... Juden in Frankfurt am Main 1800–1950, Frankfurt am Main 1988.

    Heyen, Franz-Josef (ed.): Aufklärung, Gleichstellung, Reform und Selbstbestimmung: Religiöses und geistiges Leben im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Koblenz 1974 (Dokumentation zur Geschichte der jüdischen Bevölkerung in Rheinland-Pfalz und im Saarland von 1800 bis 1945 4), pp. 1–224.

    Holeczek, Heinz: Die Judenemanzipation in Preußen, in: Bernd Martin et al. (ed.): Die Juden als Minderheit in der Geschichte, Munich 1982, pp. 131–160.

    Hyman, Paula E.: The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace: Acculturation and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century, New Haven etc. 1991.

    Hyamson, Albert M.: The Jew Bill of 1753, in: Transactions (Jewish Historical Society of England), vol. 6 (1908–1910), pp. 156–188.

    Israel, Jonathan I.: Dutch Jewry: Its History and Secular Culture, 1500–2000, Leiden 2002.

    Israel, Jonathan I.: Enlightenment Contested: Philosophical Modernity and the Emancipation of Men, Oxford 2008.

    Israel, Jonathan I.: European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism 1550–1750, Oxford 1985.

    Jersch-Wenzel, Stefi: Grundlagen der Judenemanzipation bis 1848 im östlichen Mitteleuropa: Politische Rechte, soziale Stellung und religiöse Strömungen, in: Jörg K. Hoensch et al. (ed.): Judenemanzipation – Antisemitismus – Verfolgung in Deutschland, Österreich-Ungarn, den Böhmischen Ländern und in der Slowakei, Essen 1999, pp. 21–32.

    Karniel, Josef: Die Toleranzpolitik Kaiser Josephs II., Gerlinen 1986 (Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Deutsche Geschichte, University of Tel Aviv, 9).

    Kasper-Holtkotte, Cilli: Juden im Aufbruch: Zur Sozialgeschichte einer Minderheit im Saar-Mosel-Raum um 1800, Hanover 1996 (Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden A 3).

    Katz, David S.: The Jews in the History of England 1485–1850, Oxford 1994.

    Katz, Jacob: Aus dem Ghetto in die bürgerliche Gesellschaft: Jüdische Emanzipation 1770–1870, Frankfurt am Main 1986.

    Katz, Jacob: Exclusiveness and Tolerance: Studies in Jewish-Gentile Relation in Medieval and Modern Times, Oxford 1961.

    Katz, Jacob: Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages, New York 1993.

    Kaufmann, Uri: Die Schweiz, in: Elke-Vera Kotowski et al. (ed.): Handbuch zur Geschichte der Juden in Europa 1: Länder und Regionen, Darmstadt 2001, pp. 90–100.

    Keim, Anton Maria: Die Judenfrage im Landtag des Großherzogtums Hessen 1820–1849: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Juden im Vormärz, Darmstadt et al. 1983 (Quellen und Forschungen zur hessischen Geschichte 46).

    Kropat, Wolf-Arno: Die Emanzipation der Juden in Kurhessen und Nassau im 19. Jahrhundert, in: Neunhundert Jahre Geschichte der Juden in Hessen: Beiträge zum politischen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Leben, Wiesbaden 1983 (Schriften der Kommission für die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen VI), pp. 325–349.

    Lässig, Simone: Jüdische Wege ins Bürgertum: Kulturelles Kapital und sozialer Aufstieg im 19. Jahrhundert, Göttingen 2004 (Bürgertum Neue Folge: Studien zur Zivilgesellschaft 1).

    Lauer, Gerhard: Die Rückseite der Haskala: Geschichte einer kleinen Aufklärung, Göttingen 2008.

    Lowenstein, Steven M.: The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770–1830, New York et al. 1994.

    Meyer, Michael A.: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism, Oxford 1988.

    Meyer, Michael A.: The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749–1824, 8th ed., Detroit 1992.

    Post, Bernhard: Judentoleranz und Judenemanzipation in Kurmainz 1774–1813, Wiesbaden 1985 (Schriften der Kommission für die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen VII).

    Reißner, Hanns: Mirabeaus Judenpolitik, in: Der Morgen 8 (1932), pp. 122–133.

    Richarz, Monika (ed.): Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland: Selbstzeugnisse zur Sozialgeschichte 1780–1871, Stuttgart 1976.

    Ries, Rotraud: "Und die Gesänge Zions werden in Westfalen Gebirgen in lauten Tönen erschallen": Der Modellstaat als Raum rechtlicher Gleichstellung und jüdischer Reformpolitik, in: König Lustik!? Jérôme Bonaparte und der Modellstaat Königreich Westphalen, Munich 2008 (Kataloge der Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel 29), pp. 135–141.

    Römer, Nils: Tradition und Akkulturation: Zum Sprachwandel der Juden in Deutschland zur Zeit der Haskalah, Münster et al. 1995.

    Rürup, Reinhard: Emanzipation und Antisemitismus: Studien zur "Judenfrage" der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft, new edition, Frankfurt am Main 1987 (Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft 15).

    Schimpf, Dorothee: Emanzipation und Bildungswesen der Juden im Kurfürstentum Hessen 1807–1866: Jüdische Identität zwischen Selbstbehauptung und Assimilationsdruck, Wiesbaden 1994 (Schriften der Kommission für die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen 13).

    Schochat, Asriel: Der Ursprung der jüdischen Aufklärung in Deutschland, Frankfurt am Main 2000 (Campus Judaica 14).

    Schoeps, Julius H.: Aufklärung, Judentum und Emanzipation, in: Lessing-Akademie (ed.): Judentum im Zeitalter der Aufklärung, Wolfenbüttel 1977, pp. 75–102.

    Schoeps, Julius H.: Moses Mendelssohn, Königstein/Ts. 1979.

    Schoeps, Julius H. (ed.): Moses Mendelssohn, die Aufklärung und die Anfänge des deutsch-jüdischen Bürgertums, Hamburg 2006 (MENORA 16).

    Schramm-Häder, Ulrike: Jeder erfreuet sich der Gleichheit vor dem Gesetze, nur nicht der Jude: Die Emanzipation der Juden in Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1823–1850), Munich et al. 2001 (Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Thüringen, kleine Reihe 5).

    Schulte, Christoph: Die jüdische Aufklärung: Philosophie, Religion, Geschichte, Munich 2002.

    Slezkine, Yuri: Das jüdische Jahrhundert, Göttingen 2006.

    Sorkin, David: Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment, Berkeley 1996.

    Sorkin, David: The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews and Catholics from London to Vienna, Princeton 2008.

    Sorkin, David: The Transformation of German Jewry 1780–1840, New York et al. 1987.

    Szajkowski, Zosa: Jews and the French Revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848, New York 1970.

    Toury, Jacob: Der Eintritt der Juden in das deutsche Bürgertum, in: Hans Liebeschütz et al. (ed.): Das Judentum in der deutschen Umwelt 1800–1850: Studien zur Frühgeschichte der Emanzipation, Tübingen 1977.

    Toury, Jacob: Art: "Emanzipation und Assimilation", in: Julius H. Schoeps (ed.): Neues Lexikon des Judentums, new edition, Gütersloh et al. 1998, pp. 228–232.

    Toury, Jacob: Soziale und politische Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland 1847–1871: Zwischen Revolution, Reaktion und Emanzipation, Düsseldorf 1977 (Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Deutsche Geschichte Tel Aviv 2).

    Volkov, Shulamit: Die Juden in Deutschland 1780–1918, Munich 1994 (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte 16).

    Weber, Rolf: Johann Jacoby: Eine Biographie, Cologne 1988.

    Wyrwa, Ulrich: Die Emanzipation der Juden in Europa, in: Elke-Vera Kotowski et al. (ed.): Handbuch zur Geschichte der Juden in Europa 2: Religion, Kultur, Alltag, Darmstadt 2001, pp. 336–352.

    Notes

    1. ^ The genesis of modern anti-Semitism and its precursor, early anti-Semitism in the 19th century are closely associated with the historical process of Jewish emancipation. Discussing this 'dark side of Jewish emancipation' was not possible in this article for heuristic reasons. In the same manner, the conservative theory of the "Christian state", which stalled progress in Jewish emancipation for a long time, could not be discussed here either. I wish to expressly thank Dr. Saskia Rohde (Hamburg) for her valuable comments.
    2. ^ Katz, Aus dem Ghetto 1986.
    3. ^ "What is ... this great task of our age? It is Emancipation. Not merely of the Irish, Greeks, Frankfurt Jews, West Indians, Blacks and other downtrodden peoples, but the emancipation of the whole world, outside of Europe, that has matured and now breaks away from the iron shackles of aristocratic privilege" (transl. by M. Osmann). Grass, Emanzipation 1975, p. 167.
    4. ^ Heyen, Aufklärung 1974, pp. 47f.
    5. ^ In this regard, see Lässig, Jüdische Wege 2004, pp. 15ff.
    6. ^ Toury, Eintritt der Juden 1977; Lässig, Jüdische Wege 2004, pp. 101ff.
    7. ^ On the genesis of the term, Wyrwa, Die Emanzipation 2001, pp. 336, 341.
    8. ^ Battenberg, Die jüdischen Gemeinden 2010, p. 135.
    9. ^ On mercantilism, see Battenberg, Die Juden in Deutschland 2001, pp. 42f.
    10. ^ This differed from the situation in Poland-Lithuanua, where the integration of Jews as leaseholders in the structures of the agrarian estate economy was normal, Bartal, Geschichte der Juden 2010, pp. 25f.
    11. ^ Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, pp. 63f.
    12. ^ Battenberg, Fürstliche Ansiedlungspolitik 2001; Battenberg, Tolerierte Juden 2002.
    13. ^ Israel, European Jewry 1985, pp. 158–160.
    14. ^ Freund, Die Emanzipation 2 1912, pp. 22 ff.; Grab, Der preußisch-deutsche Weg 1987, p. 142. Overall Bruer, Geschichte der Juden 1991, pp. 69ff.
    15. ^ Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, pp. 51f.; Katz, The Jews 1994, pp. 244f. Cit. in Hyamson, The Jew Bill of 1753 1908, p. 159.
    16. ^ Katz, The Jews 1994, pp. 234–236.
    17. ^ Termed so by Jacob Toury, who differentiates between the Anglo-Saxon and Continental types: Toury, Emanzipation 1998, p. 228.
    18. ^ Schochat, Der Ursprung 2000, pp. 359ff.; Schulte, Die jüdische Aufklärung 2002; Feiner, The Jewish Enlightenment 2004, pp. 36–67; Sorkin, The Transformation 1987, pp. 41ff.; Gerhard Lauer sees the "origin of emancipation" in the Haskalah, Lauer, Die Rückseite der Haskala 2008, p. 8; see also Berkovitz, Rites and Passages 2004; Sorkin, The Religious Enlightenment 2008; Israel, Enlightenment Contested 2008.
    19. ^ Allerhand, Das Judentum 1980, p. 73; Schulte, Die jüdische Aufklärung 2002, p. 172; Funkenstein, Jüdische Geschichte 1995, p. 172ff.
    20. ^ Funkenstein, Jüdische Geschichte 1995, p. 192f.
    21. ^ "ein judenfreundlicher Diskurs, der die uralten Vorurteile widerlegte und durch eine mitmenschliche Toleranz ersetzte" (transl. by M. Osmann). Berghahn, Grenzen der Toleranz 2000, p. 49.
    22. ^ Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn 1973; Schoeps, Moses Mendelssohn 1979; Bourel, Moses Mendelssohn 2007; Feiner, Moses Mendelssohn 2009; Sorkin, Moses Mendelssohn 1996; on Mendelssohn's influence on Christian society, see the contributions in: Schoeps / Grözinger / Mattenklott, Moses Mendelssohn 2006. Most authors start the history of Jewish emancipation with Mendelssohn, even though they may occasionally reach further back. See: Botstein, Emanzipation 1991; Borchsenius, The Chains Are Broken 1964, offers a readable history of the entire emancipation, which starts with Moses Mendelssohn and ends with the Zionist movement as consequence of the failed emancipation.
    23. ^ The encounters between Lessing and Mendelssohn since the fifties of the 18th Century coincided conspuicuously in time with the English "Naturalisation Act", Katz, Exclusiveness 1961, p. 169.
    24. ^ Regarding the changes in Jewish self-understanding due to the Enlightenment, see the collection of essays by Herzig / Horch / Jütte, Judentum und Aufklärung 2002.
    25. ^ Feiner, The Jewish Enlightenment 2004, pp. 87–104.
    26. ^ "Halacha" is the term for the moral and religious commands and prohibitions of Jewish tradition.
    27. ^ Esp. with Wessely's treatise "Worte der Wahrheit und des Friedens" of 1782, Schulte, Die jüdische Aufklärung 2002, pp. 63ff.
    28. ^ Term for the proponents of the Haskalah.
    29. ^ Bartal, Geschichte der Juden 2010, pp. 55–65, 101–112.
    30. ^ Bartal, Geschichte der Juden 2010, pp. 67–69.
    31. ^ Katz, Tradition and Crisis 1993, pp. 183ff. See also the articles by Gründer / Rotenstreich, Aufklärung und Haskala 1990. Regarding the dissolution of the linguistically founded identity, see Römer, Tradition und Akkulturation 1995.
    32. ^ The Landjudenschaften were coporations with the objective of autonomously administering Jewish affairs. For the vast majority of the Jewish community in Germany, they were the relevant form of organisation from the 16th century to emancipation.
    33. ^ "On the civil improvement of Jews" (transl. by M. Osmann). Dohm, Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung 1973.
    34. ^ Rürup, Emanzipation 1987, pp. 17f.; see Gotzmann, Modernisierungsdiskurse 2002.
    35. ^ "that Jews like all other human beings can be useful members of civil society" (transl. by M. Osmann). Dohm, Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung 1973, p. 45.
    36. ^ "The oppression under which they [the Jews] have lived so far is at fault for their not having achieved more in the sciences and arts. ... The moral character of Jews is such, as that of all other human beings, that it is capable of the most perfect development as well as the most unfortunate degeneration, and the effect of the external situation ... is all too evident in this regard. If one concedes that Jews are decayed in mores in a certain respect, it must also be clear to the non-partisan observer that they distinguish themselves favourably through other advantages" (transl. by M. Osmann). Dohm, Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung 1973, p. 92.
    37. ^ "Ideen, wie die Juden glücklichere und bessere Glieder der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft werden könnten" (transl. by M. Osmann). Dohm, Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung 1973, pp. 109ff.; a detailed presentation of the nine-point programme in: Berghahn, Grenzen der Toleranz 2000, pp. 137–140.
    38. ^ "die Juden wie ihre Brüder und Mitmenschen zu betrachten, die auf einem andern Wege das Wohlgefallen Gottes zu erhalten suchten" (transl. by M. Osmann). Dohm, Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung 1973, p. 122.
    39. ^ See, for example, Fleermann, Marginalisierung 2007; Post, Judentoleranz 1985; Lowenstein, The Berlin Jewish Community 1994; Meyer, The Origins of the Modern Jew 1992; Gerson, Die Kehrseite 2006; Berghahn, Grenzen der Toleranz 2000, p. 141; Volkov, Die Juden 1994, pp.18f.
    40. ^ Battenberg, Zur Geschichte der Judenemanzipation 1992, pp. 81–83; Battenberg, Die Französische Revolution 1991, pp. 257–259; Reißner, Mirabeaus Judenpolitik 1932.
    41. ^ Typical for this are the reform ordinances of the Elector of Mainz of 1783/1784 and the Hessian Landgrave Ludwig IX (1719–1790) of 1785: Böhn, Zur rechtlichen Situation 1982, pp. 55–63 and Battenberg, Judenverordnungen 1987, pp. 274–280. In an ordinance of the County of Erbach of 1790, the relief just granted to Jews was limited again: Battenberg, Die verzögerte Emanzipation 1997.
    42. ^ Katz, Aus dem Ghetto 1986, p. 182; Karniel, Die Toleranzpolitik 1986.
    43. ^ Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, pp. 94–97.
    44. ^ Battenberg, Zur Geschichte der Judenemanzipation 1992; Battenberg, Die Französische Revolution 1991; Badinter, Libres et Égaux 1989; Feuerwerker, L'émancipation des Juifs 1976; Girard, Les Juifs 1976; Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment 1968, pp. 314ff.; Szajkowski, Jews and the French Revolutions 1970, pp. 336ff.
    45. ^ Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment 1968, pp. 351f.
    46. ^ Feuerwerker, L'émancipation des Juifs 1976, p. 293.
    47. ^ Feuerwerker, L'émancipation des Juifs 1976, p. 294.
    48. ^ The Sephardic Jews in the West and South of the country (Bayonne, Bordeaux, Avignon, Venaissin, Carpentras) received civil rights with the Decree of 28 January 1790 but with the provision of waiving their previous privileges and possible autonomous rights, Badinter, Libres et Égaux 1989, pp. 167–174; Feuerwerker, L'émancipation des Juifs 1976, pp. 330–344; Battenberg, Zur Geschichte der Judenemanzipation 1992, pp. 74f.
    49. ^ According to Dohm's concept of "civil improvement".
    50. ^ Battenberg, Zur Geschichte der Judenemanzipation 1992, pp. 103–105; Feuerwerker, L'émancipation des Juifs 1976, pp. 389f. On the effects, see: Gerson, Die Kehrseite 2006, pp. 107ff.
    51. ^ "Il faut refuser tout aux Juifs comme nation et accorder tout aux Juifs comme individus." ("All must be refused to Jews as a nation, but all must be granted to Jews as individuals." [transl. by M. Osmann]). Feuerwerker, L'émancipation des Juifs 1976, pp. 389f.
    52. ^ "Il faut, qu'ils ne fassent dans l'état ni un corps politique ni un ordre; il faut, qu'ils soient individuellement citoyens." ("They must not be a political corporation or a political class, they must be individual citizens." [transl. by M. Osmann]). Feuerwerker, L'émancipation des Juifs 1976, pp. 389f.
    53. ^ Feuerwerker, L'émancipation des Juifs 1976, pp. 389f.
    54. ^ Transl. by M. Osmann. ("Révoque tous ajournements, réserves et exceptions insérés dans les précédents Décrets relativement aux individus Juifs qui prêteront le serment civique, qui sera regardé comme une renonciation à tous privilèges et exceptions introduits précédemment en leur faveur.") Feuerwerker, L'émancipation des Juifs 1976, pp. 402f.
    55. ^ "sämtlichen Juden des Französischen Reiches ohne alle Ausnahme und Einschränkung die Rechte eines aktiven Bürgers zugestanden", though against the objections of a few "orthodox Jews" (transl. by M. Osmann). Battenberg, Zur Geschichte der Judenemanzipation 1992, pp. 60f.
    56. ^ Feuerwerker, L'émancipation des Juifs 1976, pp. 380ff.; Battenberg, Zur Geschichte der Judenemanzipation 1992, pp. 103–105.
    57. ^ Rürup, Emanzipation 1987, pp. 17f.
    58. ^ "eine Geste, die sie [die Deputierten der Nationalversammlung] menschlich ehrt, die politisch aber durchaus nicht genügte, weil die im Elsass zu lösende soziale Frage damit kaum in Angriff genommen war" (transl. by M. Osmann). Reißner, Mirabeaus Judenpolitik 1932, p. 130. Regarding the social and economic problems encountered while establishing the emancipation in Alsace, see: Hyman, The Emancipation 1991, pp. 30ff.; Gerson, Die Kehrseite 2006, pp. 115ff.
    59. ^ Erb, Die Nachtseite der Judenemanzipation 1989, p. 55.
    60. ^ Battenberg, Zur Geschichte der Judenemanzipation 1992, pp. 66f.; Battenberg, Die Französische Revolution 1991, pp. 249f.; on the effects of the Decree: Gerson, Die Kehrseite 2006, pp. 145ff. Texts in: Bucher, Die Juden der Französischen Zeit 1982, pp. 166–174.
    61. ^ Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, pp. 103f.
    62. ^ "ihrer rechtlichen, rituellen und sozialen Isolation", "eine bessere rechtliche Stellung und zunehmende moralische Legitimität" (transl. by M. Osmann). Slezkine, Das jüdische Jahrhundert 2006, pp. 66.
    63. ^ On the emancipation laws of the French-occupied left bank of the Rhine, see Kasper-Holtkotte, Juden im Aufbruch 1996, pp. 192ff.
    64. ^ Fuks-Mansfeld, Enlightenment and Emancipation 2002, pp. 178–181.
    65. ^ Fuks-Mansfeld, Enlightenment and Emancipation 2002, pp. 182–184.
    66. ^ Fuks-Mansfeld, Die Niederlande 2001, p. 434. See especially Israel, Dutch Jewry 2002.
    67. ^ "unsere Unterthanen, welche der Mosaischen Religion zugethan sind, ... in unsern Staaten dieselben Rechte und Freiheiten genießen [sollten], wie unsere übrigen Unterthanen", "bei welcher Gelegenheit sie eingeführt seien und unter welcher Benennung sie vorkommen mögen" (transl. by M. Osmann). Berding, Imperiale Herrschaft 2008, p. 111; Ries, Der Modellstaat 2008, pp. 136f.; Hentsch, Gewerbeordnung 1979, pp. 24–26; Schimpf, Emanzipation 1994, p. 14.
    68. ^ Fleermann, Marginalisierung 2007, pp. 108–119.
    69. ^ Bartal, Geschichte der Juden 2010, pp. 94f.; Jersch-Wenzel, Grundlagen der Judenemanzipation 1999, p. 27.
    70. ^ Rürup, Emanzipation 1987, pp. 47ff.
    71. ^ Heuberger / Krohn, Hinaus aus dem Ghetto 1988, p. 24; Hentsch, Gewerbeordnung 1979, pp. 27f. The edict was based on an organisation patent of 16 August 1810, in which equality was promised for a financial redemption. The Jews of the annexed department of Fulda achieved their equality only on 9 February 1813, after paying a redemption sum of 60,000 guilders.
    72. ^ Text in Heinemann, Sammlung 1976, pp. 1ff.; detailed presentation of the origins and background in Freund, Die Emanzipation 1 1912, pp. 109ff., 169ff.
    73. ^ Brammer, Judenpolitik 1987, pp. 117ff.; thus also the subchapter by Stefi Jersch-Wenzel in: Brenner et al., Emanzipation und Akkulturation 1996, p. 35.
    74. ^ Grab, Der preußisch-deutsche Weg 1987, p. 150; Grab, Der deutsche Weg 1991, p. 21.
    75. ^ Berghahn, Grenzen der Toleranz 2000, p. 137.
    76. ^ Katz, Aus dem Ghetto 1986, p. 189.
    77. ^ Freund, Die Emanzipation 1 1912, pp. 451f.
    78. ^ The following does not contain a complete list but only names the most important. In numerous other states, individual decrees were proclaimed that came close to emancipating Jews but did not state it, as in the Principalities of Anhalt-Bernburg and Anhalt-Köthen in 1810 and 1812. Toury, Soziale und politische Geschichte 1977, pp. 279f. Cancellations of the personal tax, which were decreed in many places, constituted a preliminary stage, as in 1801 in Nassau-Orange, 1803 in the Duchy of Brunswick, 1804 in the Electorate of Mainz and Wied-Runkel, in 1805 in in Hesse-Darmstadt, and in 1806 in Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg – liberations from personal tax, which Gabriel Riesser celebrated as emancipatory steps: Haberkorn, Der lange Weg 2004, pp. 8f.; Herzig, Gabriel Riesser 2008, pp. 17f.; Post, Judentoleranz 1985, pp. 446f.; Kropat, Die Emanzipation der Juden 1983, p. 327; Battenberg, Judenverordnungen 1987, p. 307.
    79. ^ Bernhardt, Bewegung und Beharrung 1998, pp. 85ff.
    80. ^ Text in Heinemann, Sammlung 1976, pp. 452ff.
    81. ^ Text in Heinemann, Sammlung 1976, pp. 445ff.
    82. ^ Toury, Soziale und politische Geschichte 1977, p. 280.
    83. ^ "Wiederkehr des Verdrängten" (transl. by M. Osmann). Berghahn, Grenzen der Toleranz 2000, p. 263.
    84. ^ Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, pp. 117–120.
    85. ^ Erb / Bergmann, Die Nachtseite der Judenemanzipation 1989, pp. 36–46; also: Eissing, Zwischen Emanzipation und Beharrung 1991, pp. 249 ff.; the subchapter by Stefi Jersch-Wenzel in: Brenner, Emanzipation und Akkulturation 1996, pp. 35–43.
    86. ^ Heyen, Aufklärung 1974, pp. 5f.
    87. ^ Toury, Soziale und politische Geschichte 1977, pp. 42f.
    88. ^ "den Bekennern dieses [jüdischen] Glaubens ... die denselben in den einzelnen Bundesstaaten bereits eingeräumten Rechte erhalten werden" (§ 16), "von den einzelnen Bundesstaaten" (transl. by M. Osmann).
    89. ^ Bernhardt, Bewegung und Beharrung 1998, pp. 99ff.
    90. ^ Rürup, Emanzipation 1987, pp. 47ff.
    91. ^ Holeczek, Die Judenemanzipation 1982, p. 151; Bruer, Geschichte der Juden 1991, pp. 318ff.
    92. ^ Brammer, Judenpolitik 1987, pp. 177ff.
    93. ^ "on the situation of Jews" (transl. by M. Osmann). Full text in: Doll / Schmidt / Willmans, Der Weg zur Gleichberechtigung 1979, pp. 140–152.
    94. ^ Brammer, Judenpolitik 1987, pp. 368ff. (on the preceding debates pp. 338ff.).
    95. ^ Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, p. 141. On the introduction of the Decree in Westphalia and the Rhine provinces, siehe Wyrwa, Die Emanzipation 2001, p. 341.
    96. ^ Keim, Die Judenfrage 1983, p. 39.
    97. ^ Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, p. 122.
    98. ^ In detail: Schimpf, Emanzipation 1994, pp. 17ff.
    99. ^ Kropat, Die Emanzipation der Juden 1983, pp. 331–336; Hentsch, Gewerbeordnung 1979, pp. 41–52, pp. 75–91, with detailed discussion of the background; Schimpf, Emanzipation 1994, pp. 20f.
    100. ^ Gehring-Münzel, Vom Schutzjuden zum Staatsbürger 1992, p. 71.
    101. ^ Wyrwa, Die Emanzipation 2001, p. 346.
    102. ^ Katz, The Jews 1994, p. 385.
    103. ^ Pope Pius IX (1792–1878) briefly lifted ghetoization in 1848 but re-established the Jewish ghetto and reintroduced the old legal restrictions after putting down the uprising, Guetta / Luzzati / Weinstein, Italien 2001, pp. 359f.
    104. ^ Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, p. 122.
    105. ^ Benbassa, Frankreich 2001, p. 401.
    106. ^ Wyrwa, Die Emanzipation 2001, p. 346.
    107. ^ The Cantonist decrees regulated the military service of Jews. They provided that Jews under the age of majority were housed in special institutions to be prepared for military service. Even children of the age of eight to twelve years were taken from their parents to Siberia to perform their service requirement. Jewish children were to be "improved", "Russified" and prepared for baptism in this way. See Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, pp. 132f.
    108. ^ Wyrwa, Die Emanzipation 2001, p. 133; Bartal, Geschichte der Juden 2010, pp. 71ff.
    109. ^ Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, pp. 130f.
    110. ^ Herzig, Gabriel Riesser 2008, pp. 42–65.
    111. ^ Bartal, Geschichte der Juden 2010, pp. 74–76.
    112. ^ Michael Brenner's subchapter in: Brenner, Emanzipation und Akkulturation 1996, pp. 293–298; Heuberger / Krohn, Hinaus aus dem Ghetto 1988, pp. 61–65.
    113. ^ Herzig, Gabriel Riesser 2008, pp. 114–133; on the role of the Jewish delegate Johann Jacoby (1805–1877) see: Weber, Johann Jacoby 1988, pp. 145–159.
    114. ^ "The religious denomination is neither condition nor limitation of the rights of citizenship. It cannot negate the duties of citizenship" (transl. by M. Osmann). Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, p. 143.
    115. ^ In the Electorate of Hesse, the emancipation of Jews was already granted without restrictions on 29 October 1848 by the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I (1802–1875): "Die Ausübung aller bürgerlichen und staatsbürgerlichen Rechte, insbesondere die Bekleidung von Staats- und Gemeindeämtern, ist von dem Glaubensbekenntnis unabhängig" ("Exercising any and all civil and citizenship rights, especially holding state and municipal offices, is independent of the religious faith" [transl. by M. Osmann]). Even "peddlers" were granted "insbesondere die Fähigkeit zu öffentlichen Ämtern und zum Erwerb des Ortsbürgerrechtes sowie die Wahlfähigkeit und Wählbarkeit in Hinsicht auf die Landtage" ("especially the ability to hold public offices and acquire municipal citizenship and be able to elect and be elected to the state diet" [transl. by M. Osmann]). Schimpf, Emanzipation 1994, pp. 21f.
    116. ^ In Nassau the distinction between citizens of the state and citizens of the municipalities was explicitly cancelled, Law of 12 December 1848, Haberkorn, Der lange Weg 2004, pp. 131f.
    117. ^ "The enjoyment of the civil and citizenship rights depends on adherence to the Christian faith, reserving those exceptions that are determined by special laws" (transl. by M. Osmann). Kropat, Die Emanzipation der Juden 1983, p. 341.
    118. ^ Hentsch, Gewerbeordnung 1979, p. 109.
    119. ^ Schramm-Hader, Die Emanzipation der Juden 2001.
    120. ^ § 20 of the Constitution; text see above, note 116; Schimpf, Emanzipation 1994, p. 22.
    121. ^ "until a definitive regulation of the citizenship situation of the Israelite population" (transl. by M. Osmann). Michael Brenner's subchapter in: Brenner, Emanzipation und Akkulturation 1996, p. 299.
    122. ^ Toury, Soziale und politische Geschichte 1977, pp. 299ff., 307.
    123. ^ Michael Brenner's subchapter in: Brenner, Emanzipation und Akkulturation 1996, p. 300.
    124. ^ Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, pp. 139f.
    125. ^ Herzig, Gabriel Riesser 2008, pp. 154f.; Heuberger / Krohn, Hinaus aus dem Ghetto 1988, p. 66.
    126. ^ Haberkorn, Der lange Weg 2004, pp. 136–140.
    127. ^ "law on the equality of the Israelites as citizens" (transl. by M. Osmann). Rürup, Emanzipation 1987, pp. 70ff.
    128. ^ Toury, Soziale und politische Geschichte 1977, pp. 330f.
    129. ^ "Law concerning the equality of the denominations with regard to civil and citizenship rights" "We, Wilhelm ... King of Prussia, decree in the name of the North German Federation... as follows: All still existing limitations to civil and citizenship rights derived from differences in faith are hereby abolished. Particularly, the ability to participate in communal and state representation and holding public offices will be independent of religious faith" (transl. by M. Osmann). Reproduced in Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, p. 146, according to the Federal Law Gazette (Bundesgesetzblatt) of 1869, p. 292.
    130. ^ Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, p.146, according to the Imperial Law Gazette (Reichsgesetzblatt) of 1871, pp. 87f.
    131. ^ Guetta, Italien 2001, p. 359.
    132. ^ Guetta, p. 360.
    133. ^ Kaufmann, Schweiz 2001, p. 94.
    134. ^ Overview in Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, p. 148.
    135. ^ Girard, Les Juifs de France 1976, pp. 61ff.
    136. ^ "[examining] all regulations existing with respect to Jews to adapt them for the purpose of integrating this people into the native population, to the extent that the customs of the Jews permit this" (transl. by M. Osmann). Bartal, Geschichte der Juden 2010, pp. 113ff.
    137. ^ Bartal, Geschichte der Juden 2010, pp. 97f.
    138. ^ "Differences in religion and confession must nowhere and against nobody be used as a reason for exclusion and incapacitation in any cases that deal with the enjoyment of civil rights and citizenship, admission to public office and honorary positions and the exercise of trades and occupations" (transl. by M. Osmann). Full text in Battenberg, Das Europäische Zeitalter 2000, p. 151; on the Treaty of Berlin pp. 151f.
    139. ^ There were no comparable emancipation movements in the Ottoman Empire, so there was no need to include it in this discussion.
    140. ^ Officially, no Jews had been living on the Iberian Peninsula, that is, in Spain and Portugal since the expulsions of the late 15th century.
    141. ^ The problems of the "embourgeoisement" of Jews and, therefore, of social integration are described in detail by: Lässig, Jüdische Wege 2004, pp. 243 ff.
    142. ^ See in this regard the essay by Botstein, Emanzipation 1991.

    Creative Commons Lizenzvertrag Creative Commons Lizenzvertrag
    Dieser Text ist lizensiert unter This text is licensed under: CC by-nc-nd 3.0 Germany - Attribution, Noncommercial, No Derivative Works

    Übersetzt von:Translated by: Michael Osmann
    Fachherausgeber:Editor: Barbara Dölemeyer mit Matthias Morgenstern
    Redaktion:Copy Editor: Claudia Falk

    Eingeordnet unter:Filed under:

    Indices


    ZitierempfehlungCitation

    Battenberg, Friedrich: Jewish Emancipation in the 18th and 19th Centuries, in: Europäische Geschichte Online (EGO), hg. vom Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG), Mainz European History Online (EGO), published by the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz 2017-08-25. URL: https://www.ieg-ego.eu/battenbergf-2010-en URN: urn:nbn:de:0159-2017081702 [JJJJ-MM-TT][YYYY-MM-DD].

    Bitte setzen Sie beim Zitieren dieses Beitrages hinter der URL-Angabe in Klammern das Datum Ihres letzten Besuchs dieser Online-Adresse ein. Beim Zitieren einer bestimmten Passage aus dem Beitrag bitte zusätzlich die Nummer des Textabschnitts angeben, z.B. 2 oder 1-4.

    When quoting this article please add the date of your last retrieval in brackets after the url. When quoting a certain passage from the article please also insert the corresponding number(s), for example 2 or 1-4.