Disabilities (Jewish)
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Jewish disabilities were legal restrictions, limitations and obligations placed on
Spain
in 1492 (readmitted in 1868).
The disabilities began to be lifted with
Isaac Lyon Goldsmid[3] with the ability of Jews to sit in parliament with the passing of the Jews Relief Act 1858. The newly united German Empire abolished Jewish disabilities in Germany in 1871.[4]
The first Jewish settlers in North America arrived in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1654. They were forbidden to hold public office, open a retail shop, or establish a synagogue. When the colony was seized by the British in 1664 Jewish rights remained unchanged, but by 1671 Asser Levy was the first Jew to serve on a jury in North America.[5]
In the Russian Empire Jewish disabilities were completely abolished after the Russian Revolution in 1917.[6]
See also
- Christian privilege
- Dhimmi
- Disabilities (Catholics)
- Jewish question
- Jewish quota
- Pale of settlement
- Ghetto benches
References
- ^ "Magyar Zsidó Lexikon: Emancipáció".
- ^ "1849. évi IX. Törvénycikk - 1.oldal - Ezer év törvényei".
- ^ "Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet". Encyclopædia Britannica.
- ^ "Encyclopedia Judaica: Emancipation". Jewish Virtual Library.
- ^ "New Amsterdam's Jewish Crusader". Jewish Virtual Library.
- JSTOR 3789303.