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Chapter 13
Religion
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The Holy Roman Empire (1648-1815)
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The Jews’ Alley [Judengasse] and Stockyard in Frankfurt am Main (17th Century)
The Readmission of Jews into Brandenburg (1671)
Bartholomaeus Anhorn von Hartwiss, Magiologia (1675)
“Edict of Potsdam,” issued by Frederick William (“the Great Elector”) (October 29, 1685)
Frederick William (“the Great Elector”) receives the Huguenots in the Year 1685 (1782)
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Fürth (1705)
Nathan Hirschl, Head of the Jewish Community in Prague, Stereotypical Antisemitic Depiction (c. 1714)
The Church of St. Charles in Vienna (1720)
Prussian Edict: All Unauthorized Jews Should be Driven from the Land Immediately (January 10, 1724)
Prussian Edict: All Fraudulence Committed by Jews in Financial Transactions Must Be Stopped (April 8, 1726)
The Salzburg Protestants are Driven out of Austria and Settle in Prussia in the Year 1732 (1734)
Allegorical Depiction of King Frederick William I as the Patron of the Salzburg Protestants in the Year 1732 (1734)
The Salzburg Protestants on their Way to Prussia in the Year 1732 (1734)
The Gallows from which Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (“Jew Süß”) was Hanged (1738)
The Expulsion of the Jews from Prague by Maria Theresa (1744)
Torah Mantel (1747)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Johann Caspar Lavater at Moses Mendelssohn’s Home in 1763 (1856)
Moses Mendelssohn, Reply to Johann Caspar Lavater (1769)
Exchange of Letters between Empress Maria Theresa and her Son, Joseph II, on the Subject of Religious Toleration (1777)
Henriette Herz (1778)
Emperor Joseph II’s Toleration Patent for the Lands of the Austrian Empire (1781)
Allegorical Depiction of Joseph II’s Edict of Toleration of 1781 (1782)
Christian Wilhelm von Dohm, Concerning the Amelioration of the Civil Status of the Jews (1781)
Joseph II’s Edict of Toleration for the Jews of Lower Austria (January 2, 1782)
Satirical Depiction of the Dissolution of the Monasteries as Decreed by Joseph II (c. 1783)
Moses Mendelssohn, Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism (1783)
Edict on Religion by Johann Christoph von Wöllner, Prussian Minister of Justice and Head of Religious Affairs (July 9, 1788)
Enlightened Wisdom, in the Form of the Goddess Minerva, takes the Faithful of all Religions under her Protection (1791)
Markus Levin (18th Century)
Itzig Behrend, Chronicle of a Jewish Family in Hesse-Kassel, c. 1800-1840 (published posthumously, 1893)
A Jewish Dandy (1804)
Jérôme [Hieronymus] Napoleon, King of Westphalia, “Decree Abolishing Fees Imposed on the Jews” (January 27, 1808)
Grand Duke Karl Friedrich of Baden, “Legal Provisions Concerning the Jews of the Sixth Constitutional Edict” (June 4, 1808)
Frederick William III, King of Prussia, Edict Concerning the Civil Status of the Jews in the Prussian State (March 11, 1812)
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