HIST223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Austria-Hungary
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They could not settle where they wished: they were banned from settling in certain towns, leipzig germany: in the year 1713 it allowed 1 jewish family, and then none for the next 40 years, jews could be expelled at any time without any justification (they had no legal rights, they had to settle in certain places in the towns (the ghetto, in bigger cities the ghettos were walled in, not allowed out at night (the trumpet sounded at dusk to let them know they must go home, barred from lucrative jobs like farming, went into the jobs of banking and trading, with the rapid advance of capitalism they became good jobs, rulers became interested in jews with knowledge of trading (court jews, rulers would invite prominent jews in trade and finance to work with them in their palaces, prussia rise to greatness was due in large part to the jews that worked in the court of the prussian kings.
