Jewish emancipation in 1789 opposed Jewish representatives themselves

Evidence

That Jewish emancipation would have to be carried out against the desires of Jewish representatives was common knowledge in the eighteenth century. Mirabeau argued before the Assemblée Nationale in 1789: “Gentlemen, is it because the Jews don’t want to be citizens that you don’t proclaim them citizens? In a government like the one you now establish, all men must be men; you must expel all those who are not or who refuse to become men.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1996

Categorization

• XREF: A mechanism for the scaffolding: emancipation as a universal demand imposed on a minority that preferred communal autonomy — parallels debates over whether ‘Western values’ demanded minorities surrender their particularity.