Translating the “Marseillaise”: Biblical Republicanism and the Emancipation of Jews in Revolutionary France

Schechter, Ronald

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“…The two texts that emerged from this event-analyzed by Ronald Schechter to different endsengaged in a new type of official anticlericalism. 81 The first text was a canticle in Hebrew entitled "Fallen, Fallen Is the Wicked Kingdom" (Nafelah nafelah malkhut ha-resha'), which the Jewish community allegedly sang to the tune of the Marseillaise for the occasion. 82 The text of the piece was written by the Jewish enlightener and mathematician Moses Ensheim (1750-1839), who had been associated with the Berlin Haskalah journal Ha-measef.…”

Section: The French Revolution and Jewish Anticlericalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Jewish Anticlericalism and the Making of Modern Jewish Politics in Late Enlightenment Prussia and France

Joskowicz¹

2011

Jewish Social Studies

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In the late eighteenth century, Jewish authors in France and Prussia started to articulate their political ideas through polemics against the Catholic Church. The fact that Jews were able to employ anticlerical tropes despite their precarious legal and social position underscores the importance of anticlerical polemics for the emergence of new forms of civic belonging in a period when Jews became, or dreamed of becoming, citizens for the first time. Anti-Catholicism served as an expression of new horizontal alliances with other social groups and-in the case of France-of Jews' dedication to a state defined against anti-revolutionary clergy. Unlike antisemites in the late nineteenth century, who denounced Jews for dividing the nation with their anti-Catholicism, Enlightenment thinkers accepted the anticlericalism of Jews such as Moses Mendelssohn because they saw it as proof of Jews' ability to transcend parochial Jewish concerns.

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Section: The French Revolution and Jewish Anticlericalismmentioning

confidence: 99%