#  The Jew as Citizen: Or, Moses Mendelssohn's Atlantic Moment, 1757-1831 

 



Holly Snyder

The Age of Democratic Revolutions represented a sea change in the lot of the Jews living in the nations of western Europe and their colonies throughout the Atlantic World. This paper examines trends in the religious, political, and intellectual developments attributed to the Enlightenment that facilitated these changes. The Seven Years War created the context in which a number of important currents of Enlightenment thought began to coalesce in ways that facilitated the expansion of Jewish rights and privileges. Although the role is frequently overlooked in the historiography, Britain and its colonies were key participants in the development of civil emancipation for Jews between 1750 and 1835.

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