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2. Napoleon and the Jews - Wikipedia

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   Through his policies overall, Napoleon greatly improved the condition of the Jews in France and Europe. Starting in 1806, Napoleon passed a number of measures enhancing the position of the Jews in the French Empire [citation needed]. He accepted a representative group elected by the Jewish community, the Grand Sanhedrin, as their ...

3. Grand Sanhedrin - Wikipedia

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   Grand Sanhedrin. The Grand Sanhedrin was a Jewish high court convened in Europe by French Emperor Napoleon I to give legal sanction to the principles expressed by an assembly of Jewish notables in answer to the twelve questions submitted to it by the government. [1] The name was chosen to imply that the Grand Sanhedrin had the authority of the ...

4. War of the Fourth Coalition - Wikipedia

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   The War of the Fourth Coalition (French: Guerre de la Quatrième Coalition) was a war spanning 1806–1807 that saw a multinational coalition fight against Napoleon 's French Empire, subsequently being defeated. The main coalition partners were Prussia and Russia with Saxony, Sweden, and Great Britain also contributing.

5. History of the Jews in the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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   t. e. The history of the Jews in the Netherlands largely dates to the late 16th century and 17th century, when Sephardic Jews from Portugal and Spain began to settle in Amsterdam and a few other Dutch cities, [2][3] because the Netherlands was an unusual center of religious tolerance.

6. Jewish emancipation - Wikipedia

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   An 1806 French print depicts Napoleon Bonaparte emancipating the Jews. Jewish emancipation was the process in various nations in Europe of eliminating Jewish disabilities, e.g. Jewish quotas, to which European Jews were then subject, and the recognition of Jews as entitled to equality and citizenship rights. [1]

7. Consistory (Judaism) - Wikipedia

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   Consistory (Judaism) A Jewish consistory (or Consistoire in French; see conventional meanings: consistory in Wiktionary) was a body governing the Jewish congregations of a province or of a country; also the district administered by the consistory. Napoleon Bonaparte established the first central Jewish consistory in France, and ordered regional ...

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9. Napoleonic Wars - Wikipedia

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   The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) and produced a ...