JWST 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antisemitism, Felix Mendelssohn, Scientific Racism
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The modern period can be characterized as a time in which jews successfully integrated into the society at large. Cultural integration, social integration and economic integration. On one hand it is a success of how a community could be integrated in a society, but on another hand, the success triggered various social anxieties and hostilities. Granted civil rights and equalities to jews across europe. France emancipated jews during the french revolution. This was an uneven process that took over a century, started with the. French revolution in france but in germany jews were emancipated about a century later, in the year 1871 around the time of german unification. The emancipation was rescinded to german jews by 1933 by the nazis. German jews were treated as citizens for a very brief period of time. In russia it took more time, a majority of european and world jews live at the time, the emancipation took place during 1917, around the russian.
