Emancipating the Jews in Eighteenth-Century France Revised Edition
by
Margaret R. O’Leary
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
On December 7, 1793, an old man lay motionless at last, surrounded by his family, rabbis, and members of the society who would prepare his body for Jewish burial. Sixteen days after he was sentenced to jail, his family would go to extraordinary efforts to bury him in a Jewish cemetery ordered destroyed...