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Lot #    26350
Auction End Date    3/23/2010 11:53:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Emancipation Edict
Title (Hebrew)    Gesetz die buergerliche Gleichstellung der Juden
Author    [Community - German Jews]
City    Karlsruhe, Germany
Publisher    Grossherzoglich badisches Regierungs-Blatt
Publication Date    1862
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 445-452 pp.; 210:255 mm., nice margin, light age staining. A good copy with spine reinforced with paper strip.
          
Paragraph 1    Pamphlet; was probably bound with other decrees as part of the Grossherzoglich badisches Regierungs-Blatt; this issue also includes 'Gesetz ueber Niederlassung und Aufenthalt' and 'Gesetz, die Abaenderung des Gesetzes vom 31. Dezember 1862 ueber die Rechte der Gemeindebuerger bezueglich der Beschraenkung des Rechts zur Verehelichung betreffend'.
          
Detailed
Description		    Edict issued by Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden (1826-1907) to emancipate the Jews (pp. 450-52). The Jews of Baden had already received certain rights beginning in 1806, but it took more than fifty years to achieve complete equality. With the 1862 edict, Jews in Baden were elevated from the status of protected citizens to full citizens. The only legal differences that remained during a ten-year interim period were claims to communal property and the assumption by the local municipality of the Jewish services for the poor. The former grand duchy was created in 1806 from parts of various territories (including the Palatinate), where until then the Jews had not formed a united community nor did they share a common history. Baden was one of the few German states that retained Jewish emancipation laws acquired under French rule before 1815, although with restrictions. The 1807 and 1808 edicts that founded the new state explicitly included Jews. An edict in 1809 granted the Jews an officially recognized state organization, required them to adopt permanent family names and determined their as yet curtailed civil status. The constitution of 1818 implicitly confirmed the civil rights granted to the Jews by the earlier edicts but denied them equal political rights. The struggle for emancipation focused on local civil rights and met with fierce and sometimes violent resistance in many villages and towns. Baden¿s liberal movement failed to endorse Jewish emancipation and instead most of its leading figures echoed public sentiment on the matter. Anti-Jewish outrages, often connected with the issue of emancipation, occurred in Baden in 1819 (Hep-Hep riots), 1830, 1848, and 1862. Severe and widespread anti-Jewish rioting accompanied the Revolution of 1848, especially in northern Baden, and as a consequence the Diet pulled back from granting full emancipation to the Jews once more. In 1862 civil rights were eventually granted, and the last of Baden¿s cities to exclude Jews (Baden-Baden, Freiburg, Constance, and Offenburg) allowed them to settle there.
          
Reference
Description		    JE; EJ: Rosenthal, B.:Heimatgeschichte der badischen Juden. ¿ 1927. Lewin, A: Geschichte der badischen Juden 1738¿1909. - 1909. German-Jewish History in modern times. ¿ New York, 1996. Vol. 2., pp. 24, 29, pp. 290-293
        
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18th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    German
  
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