Wednesday, January 5, 2011

European History

Homework due Thursday, January 6

Both: Go to http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/searchfr.php?function=find&x=124&y=9&keyword=Jews#
Click on Zalkind-Hourwitz, Vindication of the Jews (1789) and read the introduction AND the document.
Return to above page and scroll down to “Admission of Jews to Rights of Citizenship”. Click on the link and read the introduction and the article.
Write answers to the following questions:
In your opinion, is Zalkind-Hourwitz’s advice good or bad for the Jews of France?
What might account for his opinions?
In the National Assembly’s law regarding the Jews, what did the Jews lose?

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