Artikelen Waar op aan de Jooden, by Requeste zulks verzoekende, het Recht van Inwoning Binnen de Stad Utrecht zal worden vergunt. By Burgemeesteren en Vroedschap geärresteerd den 19 January en 16 February 1789.

(NETHERLANDS).

G. van den Brink, Jansz

Utrecht

1789

WordCat records only three copies (all in the Netherlands).

Permission for German Jews to reside in the Dutch town of Utrecht as issued by the Mayor and City Council. Unusual in that a distinction had been made by Utrecht city elders whereby Sephardic Jews were permitted to reside in Utrecht fifty years earlier than their Aschkenazic counterparts. This was since Utrecht sought to attract a wealthy Spanish-Portuguese Jewish merchant-class as a way to strengthen the local economy. German Jews however were regarded as being less attractive to Utrecht’s business world, hence their residency rights were accompanied by a host of duties and restrictions. See the JE Vol. XII, p. 392.