Jewish Emancipation: The Contract Myth (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Two conclusions follow: (1) that there is no warrant in the Acts and standing orders which form the legal foundation of Jewish emancipation, that is to say, in law, for the emancipation contract theory, and (2) that if such a contract was actually made the bargain was very much harder and more discreditable than those Jews who allege the contract commonly suffer to appear. The Act of 1858 which they celebrate did not make Jews equal citizens. They had to supplicate for permission to enter the legislature, and that permission might be withheld after a humiliating debate. Yet the emancipation contract theory insists that it was for this mutilated and unequal citizenship that England claimed and Jewry conceded the surrender of Jewish nationality and the emptying of the Jewish religion of its characteristic quality.

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