Auction 88 · Lot 79
Unterthänigste Vorstellung der Gemeinde von Strassburg über eine Bittschrift
- Estimate
- $400–$600
- Hammer price
- $350
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(FRANCE).
Place
(Strasbourg
Publication
1790)
Description
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."]
summary
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.
pp. 11, (1 blank). Trace foxed. Unbound. 4to.
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