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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. 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 ...

5. Fall of Berlin (1806) - Wikipedia

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   The fall of Berlin took place on 24 October 1806 when the Prussian capital of Berlin was captured by French forces in the aftermath of the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt. Berlin fell 15 days after the beginning of the war. The French Emperor Napoleon entered the city after three days, from which he issued his Berlin Decree implementing his ...

6. Order of battle at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt - Wikipedia

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   The order of battle at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt is listed below. The order of battle includes units from the First French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia that fought each other in the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt on 14 October 1806. The order of battle may be useful to trace the battles of Schleiz and Saalfeld, which occurred before Jena ...

7. 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]

8. 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.

9. Addresses to the German Nation - Wikipedia

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   t. e. The Addresses to the German Nation (German: Reden an die deutsche Nation, 1806) is a political literature book by German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte that advocates German nationalism in reaction to the occupation and subjugation of German territories by Napoleon 's French Empire following the Battle of Jena. [1][2] Fichte evoked a ...