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18th century

Legal Persecution

17 avril 1750·Prusse

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Frederick II's General Regulation divides Jewish families into classes, limits the right of residence to one child per household, and restricts trades and marriages

Frederick II's General Regulation classifies Jewish families in Prussia according to their usefulness to the State. "Ordinary protected" persons may pass on their right of residence, but to only one of their children; "extraordinary protected" persons may not pass it on at all. The trades open to them are enumerated, marriages subject to authorization, and a tax burdens every act of civil life.

The text neither expels nor persecutes: it organizes the demographic sterilization of a population deemed tolerable only in limited numbers. Mirabeau and the publicists of the Aufklärung cited it as the model of what needed to be undone; it was repealed by the emancipation edict promulgated in the aftermath of the defeat at Iéna.

Period :
18th century
Type :
Persecution
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Allemagne
Sources

*General-Privilegium und Reglement für die Judenschaft* ; Selma Stern, *Der preußische Staat und die Juden* ; Christian Wilhelm Dohm, *De la réforme politique des Juifs*.

At the same place

The catalogue holds no other event at Prusse.

In the same country305

  1. 1012Expulsion of the community by Henri II; Gershom ben Juda, "light of the exile", loses his son there, forcibly convertedtoute la communauté
  2. 1096Massacres of the First Crusade in the Rhineland~800 à Worms, ~1 000 à Mayence ; total 5 000-12 000
  3. 18 et 25 mai 1096Two massacres~800
  4. Mai-juin 1096The archbishop disperses the community in seven neighboring towns; the crusaders massacre them one by one in Juneplusieurs centaines
  5. 3 mai 1096Sabbath attack by the crusaders of Emicho of Flonheim; Bishop Jean shelters the survivors in his castles and has murderers executed11
  6. 27 mai 1096Assault on the palace of Archbishop Ruthard~1 100
  7. Juin 1096The refugees of Cologne take their own lives in the refectory hall at the moment of the Sabbath mealinconnu
  8. Juin 1096Jews driven into the Danube and forcibly baptized en masse; Henry IV would later permit them to return to Judaismtoute la communauté baptisée

And 297 more in the catalogue.

Event 882 of 2483, in chronological order · 18th century: 74 events in the catalogue

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