Lessing sought emancipation through a society without religious categories at all

Evidence

Lessing himself had no such illusions. His last letter to Moses Mendelssohn expressed most clearly what he wanted: “the shortest and safest way to that European country without either Christians or Jews.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2030

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s distinction between emancipation-by-assimilation versus abolition of religious distinction altogether — a definitional fork in the Jewish emancipation concept.