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Emancipation as a Historical Problem Emancipation as a Historical Problem
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Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Equality and Distinction in the Revolutionary Conception of Citizenship Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Equality and Distinction in the Revolutionary Conception of Citizenship
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Applying for Citizenship:The Jews Present their Qualifications Applying for Citizenship:The Jews Present their Qualifications
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The Story the Jews told Themselves about Themselves The Story the Jews told Themselves about Themselves
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5 Constituting Differences: The French Revolution and the Jews
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Published:April 2003
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Abstract
This chapter considers whether the “emancipation” that the Revolution enacted was good or bad for the Jews. It asks why revolutionaries spent so much time and energy thinking about the Jews, discussing and debating their status and proposing and passing laws directed at them specifically. It also asks what contemporary representations, by Gentiles as well as Jews, of the relationship between Jews and the mythically emerging French nation can tell about the Revolution itself: its values, its discourses, its contradictions. The number of potential active Jewish citizens would have been no more than twenty-five hundred if the median income of Jews was comparable to Gentiles in France. The Jews of Nancy were nevertheless better off than the majority of their coreligionists in France, though less wealthy than the portugais of Bordeaux.
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