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Article: Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798-1871.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 1999
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Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798-1871. By Shulamit S. Magnus. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 336. $49.50.)
The long process by which Jews gained civil equality in Germany is usually portrayed in reference to principled considerations. Beginning with Christian Wilhelm Dohm toward the end of the eighteenth century and continuing with bourgeois Liberal politicians in the nineteenth century, Jewish emancipation, it is argued, was the natural concomitant of a more tolerant world view. To be sure, Jewish writers, such as Gabriel Riesser, also played some role in its achievement, but they too couched their arguments in terms of ...