Unterthänigste Vorstellung der Gemeinde von Strassburg über eine Bittschrift

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Lot 79

(FRANCE).

Unterthänigste Vorstellung der Gemeinde von Strassburg über eine Bittschrift

welche den 28ten Jänner dieses Jahrs im Namen der Juden des Elsasses der National-Versammlung vorgelegt worden; und über ein Werk, betitelt: Abhandlung der Frage über den Bürgerstand der Juden eben derselben Provinz [“Response of the Community of Strassburg regarding a petition of 28 January this year in the name of the Jews of Alsace to the National Assembly; and to a work entitled "Treatise [on] the Question of Citizenship of the Jews in said Province."] pp. 11, (1 blank). Trace foxed. Unbound. 4to.

(Strasbourg: 1790)

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

In the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789 and the subsequent emancipation of the Spanish-Portuguese Jews of Bordeaux, Bayonne, Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin - the German Jews of the Alsace petitioned the French National Assembly for the rights of citizenship. With anti-Semitic overtones, the present tract repudiates these efforts. See Szajkowski, Jews and the French Revolutions (1970) p. 868, no. 112.