My question for Von Dohm on emancipating the jews is as follows. Emancipation means allowing a person to enter into every area of public society, in essence creating a citizen out of them with equal rights and freedoms as any other. Emancipating the Jews where there is a relatively small population of them poses little threat as adding a small number of voices will not affect government. But in cities with Jewish ghettos where they number in the thousands poses the threat that they might use their collective voice to alter government to give themselves unfair advantages. It seems unsafe to allow for the thousands of jews within cities to all gain the ability to have a say, we have seen how jews have created a monopoly of various industries. Is there some way the government can allow emancipation and safeguard the interest of its current citizens.
My question concerning Michaelis is this. If the jews have historically have created communities for themselves that are preferential to Jews and discourteous towards outsiders is it as much fault as the government for refusing them admission to government and other positions in society? If jews were freely allowed and encouraged to take part in society and surround themselves with non-jews would they not come in time to changes their minds and embrace the ideals of a society that has accepted them?
Von Dohm Question:
ReplyDeleteIsn't it true that corrupt Jews in society (such as ones who eat pork) make it difficult for all Jews to be trusted? Wouldn't the corruption of some Jews be a good reason for the state to have its reservations about emancipating the Jews?
Michaelis Question
Why should the Jews be persecuted and not be emancipated if they would contribute to the state and love the state after emancipation? Shouldn't the overwhelming sense of patroticism for the state following emancipation be a big reason to grant them this freedom?