Class 14. 3/3 Political emancipation and Judaism as a religion

An 1806 French print depicts Napoleon Bonaparte emancipating the Jews.

Leora Batnizky, How Judaism Became a Religion, Introduction Download Introduction

, 1–9.

Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History Download The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History

, 3rd. ed. (2011): “The Process of Political Emancipation in Western Europe, 1789–1871”; French National Assembly documents; Berr Isaac Berr, “Letter of a Citizen to His Fellow Jews” (1791), 121–130.

What are the problems with classifying Judaism as a religion? What do the politics of nation-states have to do with the structure of religion?