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The Abbé Grégoire and the Jewish Question in the French Revolution

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2014, (30), pp.65~90
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Hee-Young Yang 1

1서울여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article examines the nature of the discourse and activities of the Abbé Grégoire in favor of the Jews’ emancipation in the French Revolution. We can draw three conclusions from this examination. First, even if the Abbé Grégoire expected the final conversion of the Jews, he was not a “converter of the Jews” and advocated the resort to force under no circumstances. Secondly, he shared contemporary prejudices and ignorance about the Jews and the Judaism. Thirdly, we can say that the regeneration of the Jews proposed by the Abbé Grégoire would threaten the jewish identity and the autonomy of the jewish communities. In the discourse and activities of the Abbé Grégoire in favor of the Jews coexisted the contradictory possibilities of the emancipation and the exclusion which should be examined in the concrete historical development.

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