Zionist library for boys and girls · 1908-01-01 · 1 · p. [Seite]

THE JEWS IB FRiuTCE. On the eve of the French Revolution, the French Jews lived imefc the sane miserable life as Jews all over the world., restricted to ghettos and subject to persecution. at the outbreak of the £ovolution in 1789, the . Jews were in a peculiar situation. Isolated from the French citizens, they could not participate actively in the Eevolution. The French peasant on the other handt who was fighting against the Feudal Lord, did not spare the Jewish tax-collector fa profession forced upon the Jew because most of the other professions, were closed to him) and raided the Jewish ghettos whenever they could. The beginning of the French Be volution therefore brought both sorrow and happiness to the Jewish population. Gradually the Jews benefited from the overthrow of the Feudal system in France and by the progressive aims and declarations of the Revolution* From the following quotations and actual minutes token by participants in various committees, you can follow -this fight for freedom as it was actually happening &t the time:- In ivu gust, in the National Conference the followin g resolution was accepted after heated discussion: "Bo-one shall be restricted because of