Talk:Jewish Emancipation

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Why is this deemed an event in each country rather than a process. Why 1890 in the UK? Lionel de Rothschild had been elected an MP in 1847 and took the oath in 1858. David Salomons became Lord Mayor of London in 1855. So the rights were aquired gradually. Even now, Jews (in the religious sense) cannot be the monarch. --03:11, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

I suspect that it's a religious test on the franchise. I agree that it's rather an artificial divide- Jewish suffrage and Jewish rights are two very different things, and Britain was rather ahead of the curve on the latter. Perhaps the article could make that clearer.--131.111.8.98 08:47, 2 May 2006 (UTC)