In countries that Napoleon Bonaparte’s Consulate and French Empire conquered during the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon emancipated the Jews and introduced other ideas of liberty. Napoleon overrode old laws restricting Jews to ghettos and forcing them to wear badges identifying them as Jewish.In Malta, Napoleon ended the enslavement of Jews and permitted the construction of synagogues. He also lifted laws across Europe that limited Jews’ rights to property, worship, and certain occupations.
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…but slavery will continueÂ
Neil118781 on
Also, Henri de Rottembourg was the only Jewish general in any nation during the Napoleonic era. The son of a baker, he rose through the ranks and attained the rank of General of Division in 1813. Napoleon made him a Baron of the Empire, had his name inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe, and granted him the Legion of Honor.
LOL Napoleon didn’t give two shits about freedom. He REINTRODUCED slavery in the colonies that had been abolished by the revolution, and his legal code stripped women of nearly all their rights, not just those they had gained in the revolution, but even those that they had in many parts of Europe long before it. His emancipation of the Jews is a drop in the bucket compared to that, and probably had some cynical motivations anyways.
Spainiswhite on
imagine showing this to someone in 6th century Bolivia
SaraHHHBK on
Slavery on the other hand will start again.
And women will loose the rights they earned.
Komrade_Pootis on
Napoleon was a pragmatic tyrant. He did away with anti-Semitic laws because he didn’t particularly care about the Jews one way or the other and wanted their support. And, he reinstituted slavery because it was economically beneficial.
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Guys can we stop pretending that this was idealism?! Napoleon was ENTIRELY motivated by economic and discs considerations when it came to to race. Ask Toussaint Louverture. He is the only ruler in history to REINSTITUTE SLAVERY.
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Don’t worry he also brought slavery back and got rid of women’s rights again
Ryousan82 on
Narrator : The Antisemitism did not ,in fact, stop.
DazSamueru on
I would argue that modern antisemitism is a product (albeit unintentional) of Napoleon’s emancipation. Earlier Jew hatred was more religious based, and in pre-liberal times Jews functioned almost as a different medieval social caste. Later antisemitism (the term was coined in the 19th century) was more racial, and was in response to a Europe where Jews increasingly filled all the same social roles as Gentiles.
Also, many German liberals (though certainly not all, Heinrich Heine was himself Jewish) were antisemitic, because they viewed the reactionary regimes of Europe as supporting and being propped up by Jews; conspiracy theorists’ favourite family, the Rothschilds, helped fund the Habsburg’s crushing of the 1820 liberal Sicilian revolt. It was a German liberal, Treitschke, who coined the phrase “the Jews are our misfortune.”
Finally, I will remark that Napoleon’s reforms had many Jewish opponents; many conservative or Hasidic Jews considered that emancipation would be the destruction of the Jewish religion. One prominent rabbi (Shneur Zalman) led his community in prayer that the Tsar of all people would win in 1812.
Sir_Marshal on
Still got beaten by Snow and Russian splinter forces. He went to war against Christian Russia and lost.
TastyStrawberry2747 on
He didn’t wanted the poor people eat the rich using religion
Parzival_2k7 on
People forget that though Napoleon was a disappointment (Beethoven removed his dedication of the 3rd Symphony to him, he could’ve been the great man of the people who fought and won for the people but rather he made himself emperor etc) he was still of the Revolution, he spread the idea of the Nation state through his conquest. In France people saw him as someone reverting some of the good the revolution brought, but in the rest of Europe he really *was* the revolution. The Polish anthem mentions him, his code is still used as law in many countries, and without him and his conquest the revolution and the idea of a nation would’ve never spread as much as it did.
Poonslayer42069 on
Stop antigoy hate
marksman629 on
I heard that the patriarch of the Russian orthodox condemned him as the antichrist over his pro religious freedom positions regarding jewish people.
UmaThermos1 on
Something something religion keeps the poor from eating the rich
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In countries that Napoleon Bonaparte’s Consulate and French Empire conquered during the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon emancipated the Jews and introduced other ideas of liberty. Napoleon overrode old laws restricting Jews to ghettos and forcing them to wear badges identifying them as Jewish.In Malta, Napoleon ended the enslavement of Jews and permitted the construction of synagogues. He also lifted laws across Europe that limited Jews’ rights to property, worship, and certain occupations.
…but slavery will continueÂ
Also, Henri de Rottembourg was the only Jewish general in any nation during the Napoleonic era. The son of a baker, he rose through the ranks and attained the rank of General of Division in 1813. Napoleon made him a Baron of the Empire, had his name inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe, and granted him the Legion of Honor.
Otto von Bismarck *cough* *cough*
Si Pero luego volvió a instalar la esclavitud en Haità por qué patata y asà Francia perdió para siempre su colonia mas rica, aunque conociendo Napoleón tal ves habÃa vendido Haità a estados unidos
LOL Napoleon didn’t give two shits about freedom. He REINTRODUCED slavery in the colonies that had been abolished by the revolution, and his legal code stripped women of nearly all their rights, not just those they had gained in the revolution, but even those that they had in many parts of Europe long before it. His emancipation of the Jews is a drop in the bucket compared to that, and probably had some cynical motivations anyways.
imagine showing this to someone in 6th century Bolivia
Slavery on the other hand will start again.
And women will loose the rights they earned.
Napoleon was a pragmatic tyrant. He did away with anti-Semitic laws because he didn’t particularly care about the Jews one way or the other and wanted their support. And, he reinstituted slavery because it was economically beneficial.
Guys can we stop pretending that this was idealism?! Napoleon was ENTIRELY motivated by economic and discs considerations when it came to to race. Ask Toussaint Louverture. He is the only ruler in history to REINSTITUTE SLAVERY.
Don’t worry he also brought slavery back and got rid of women’s rights again
Narrator : The Antisemitism did not ,in fact, stop.
I would argue that modern antisemitism is a product (albeit unintentional) of Napoleon’s emancipation. Earlier Jew hatred was more religious based, and in pre-liberal times Jews functioned almost as a different medieval social caste. Later antisemitism (the term was coined in the 19th century) was more racial, and was in response to a Europe where Jews increasingly filled all the same social roles as Gentiles.
Also, many German liberals (though certainly not all, Heinrich Heine was himself Jewish) were antisemitic, because they viewed the reactionary regimes of Europe as supporting and being propped up by Jews; conspiracy theorists’ favourite family, the Rothschilds, helped fund the Habsburg’s crushing of the 1820 liberal Sicilian revolt. It was a German liberal, Treitschke, who coined the phrase “the Jews are our misfortune.”
Finally, I will remark that Napoleon’s reforms had many Jewish opponents; many conservative or Hasidic Jews considered that emancipation would be the destruction of the Jewish religion. One prominent rabbi (Shneur Zalman) led his community in prayer that the Tsar of all people would win in 1812.
Still got beaten by Snow and Russian splinter forces. He went to war against Christian Russia and lost.
He didn’t wanted the poor people eat the rich using religion
People forget that though Napoleon was a disappointment (Beethoven removed his dedication of the 3rd Symphony to him, he could’ve been the great man of the people who fought and won for the people but rather he made himself emperor etc) he was still of the Revolution, he spread the idea of the Nation state through his conquest. In France people saw him as someone reverting some of the good the revolution brought, but in the rest of Europe he really *was* the revolution. The Polish anthem mentions him, his code is still used as law in many countries, and without him and his conquest the revolution and the idea of a nation would’ve never spread as much as it did.
Stop antigoy hate
I heard that the patriarch of the Russian orthodox condemned him as the antichrist over his pro religious freedom positions regarding jewish people.
Something something religion keeps the poor from eating the rich
“Product of the revolution”
So he was a mason?Â
Napoleon also introduced the “Décret infâme” which restriced jewish Civil rights, money lending, residency rights, and freedom of trade to enforce assimilation in eastern france especially Elsass-Lothringen and the annexed rhinelands.
The prohibition of slavery will also stop
I’m not saying Napoleon was perfect. Far, FAR from it.
But I prefer Napoleon to the people who beat Napoleon.
antisemitism surely happens for no reason
surely
all 837384 times throughout history
Vive L’Empereur