Emancipation And Integration Of French Jews Before World War I
Emancipation And Integration Of French Jews Before World War I

Summary/Abstract: “1. The Emancipation of Jews The emancipation Jews enjoyed after the Revolution was undoubtedly primarily and mainly a consequence of the development of the notion of tolerance, which did not cease to progress during the 18th century, and whose first intended beneficiaries were the Protestants. An intellectual, and particularly philosophical, movement in favor of the Jews, launched in Germany (where its results were insignificant), materialized in France. Obtaining the emancipation – equal civil and political rights – was the fulfillment of a struggle whose outcome was accelerated by the revolutionary torment. It was a Jew from Alsace, Cerf Berr, who first asked Moses Mendelssohn, the “German Plato” and father of the Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment), to write a memorandum in view of improving the condition of his fellow worshipers in Alsace. Still, it was a Christian friend of the famous philosopher, Protestant historian Christian Wilhelm Dohm of Berlin, who published, a year later, in 1782, the booklet Ueber die buergerliche Verbesserung der Juden [On the”[…]

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