Jewish Emancipation

Jewish Emancipation refers to the abolition of discriminatory laws applied specially to Jews, the recognition of Jews as equal to other citizens, and the formal granting of citizenship. Emancipation was a major goal European Jews of the 19th Century, and led to active paticipation of Jews in the civil society. As a result, many Jews who earlier were practically locked out of the rest of the society, turned to Jewish political movements (such as Zionism), or revolutionary movements (especially facing oppressive regimes such as in Russian Empire) or were able to emigrate to countries of better opportunities.

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Europe - Jew - 19th Century - Civil society - Jewish political movements - Zionism - Revolutionary movement - Russian Empire - Emigrate

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