JUS 370A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jewish Emancipation, Spanish Inquisition, Italian Unification
29 Mar 2016
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Modern jewish history: jewish emancipation and its reversal. Studying history: patterns, the past, people, documents (sources, truth, events, traditions/culture/literature. The three pillars of modern jewish history: emancipation begins in 1787 with napoleon, the holocaust reversal of emancipation, creation of the state of israel. 1789: french revolution first time jews got rights as citizens. Began the idea that monarchy is not divine. Before this was absolutism government that centralizes and wants to be efficient to get more control over the economy and draw in money. Controls the money so controls the people, requires tribute. The nobility and church begin to lose privileges and because the government wants to be more economically efficient they invite people (including jews, but only jews with money) to open businesses. Napoleonic code in acqui then the house of savoy regains control: equal rights to property, jews couldn"t own property in pre-modern.
