Judereglementet

Judereglementet

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It enabled Jews to settle and become naturalized Swedish citizens, as long as they were in possession of assets. Earlier legislation banning Jews altogether was modified so as to only ban poor Jews. The minimum capital stipulated was two thousand riksdaler that included clothes, effects, household inventory, running costs, and ready cash as well as bills of exchange.

Jews could not bring domestic servants with them, lest they smuggle beggar Jews (tiggare Judar) into the country.

Jews were restricted to three cities:

The statute also restricted the occupations Jews could pursue: membership of guilds was not open to them. Judereglementet specified occupations such as engraving, the cutting of diamonds and other precious stones, and making instruments, but trading in gold was restricted to the guilds.[5]^[2]

After the

, a wave of liberalism swept across Europe, opposing the privileges of the guilds and aristocracy and demanding inalienable human rights, including the emancipation of the Jews. In February 1838, the King commissioned the Board of Trade to draw up a modernized set of Jewish regulations. Five of the elders of the Stockholm Jewish community demanded that the regulations be repealed. On 30 June 1838, Judereglementet was repealed. The Jews in Sweden then became Swedish citizens "of the Mosaic creed", but certain restrictions on places of residence and other civil rights remained until 1870.

See also

• History of the Jews in Sweden
• Religion in Sweden
• Aaron Isaac

References

Notes

Sources

• Valentin, Hugo (1924). Judarnas historia i Sverige (in Swedish). Stockholm: Judiska museet i Stockholm.
  ISBN 9789127107908
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• Valentin, Hugo (1924). Urkunder till judarnas historia i Sverige (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. pp. 18ff.
  OCLC 174587
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