Language:
German
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
47,3 (1995) 193-204
Keywords:
Mendelssohn, Moses,
;
Jews History 1500-1800
Abstract:
Traces the rise of the idea and practice of religious toleration in Europe in the 16th-18th centuries, especially in 18th-century Prussia, where it was first promoted by writers like Lessing and Mendelssohn. Notes that King Friedrich II, despite his reputation for tolerance, severely restricted the rights of his Jewish subjects, and philosophers of the Enlightenment, such as Voltaire and even Kant, maligned them as superstitious and deceitful. Even when the Jews finally obtained full civic equality (in the 19th century), they remained outsiders in society.
Note:
Appeared also in his "Deutsch-jüdische Symbiose oder, Die missglückte Emanzipation" (1996).
DOI:
10.1163/157007395X00247
URL:
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