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This book examines the four most important projects for Jewish emancipation in eighteenth-century Europe. The essays presented analyze the proposal advanced by the freethinker John Toland in 1714 and three projects of the 1780's, formulated by the state official Christian Wilhelm von Dohm in Frederick the Great's Prussia, the economist Count D'Arco in Mantua under Habsburg rule, and the Abbé Henri Grégoire in France on the eve of the Revolution. Focusing on the combination of humanitarian and utilitarian arguments and objectives in the proposals to redefine the legal and social status of the Jews, this book is a particularly useful resource for scholars and students interested in the history of Jewish-Gentile relations and the Age of Enlightenment.

Jews --- Philosemitism --- Antisemitism --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Philo-Semitism --- Philsemitism --- Anti-Jewish attitudes --- Anti-Semitism --- Ethnic relations --- Prejudices --- Cultural assimilation --- Emancipation --- Toland, John, --- Dohm, Christian Wilhelm von, --- D'Arco, Giambattista Gherardo, --- Grégoire, Henri, --- Arco, Giovanni Battista Gherardo d', --- Arco, Giambattista Gherardo d', --- D'Arco, Gio. Battista Gherardo --- Arco, --- Von Dohm, Christian Wilhelm, --- Dohm, Christian Konrad Wilhelm von, --- Dohm, Krisṭiʼan Ṿilhelm, --- Dohm, Krisṭyan Ṿilhelm, --- דוהם, כריסטיאן וילהלם --- Patricola, --- Europe --- History --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia