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)

Also, the article is contradictory--the section on Emancipation Movements claims that Jews were equal citizens in Germany from 1848 until the Nazi regime, while the next section claims that Jews only achieved equal rights in Germany in 1871. As the user above says, this needs to be clearer about whether Emancipation is about enfranchisement, equality before the law, or a complex mixture of many measures.--140.247.152.124 03:43, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible contradiction

The map states that the emancipation of Jews in Spain took place in 1930, whereas in a table in the bottom of the article states 1910, the same as Portugal in the map. --Taraborn 22:41, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map

Given the date of 1810 the map should definitely say "United Kingdom" not "Great Britain"A Geek Tragedy 00:00, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Also, given that many of the states depicted in the map are late 19th century, while in Greece emancipated Jews in 1830, it should not be depicted as part of the Ottoman Empire.--Michalis Famelis (talk) 01:43, 25 February 2007 (UTC)