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Joseph Salvador

1796–1873

An eminent but controversial religious scholar, Joseph Salvador has been viewed simultaneously as proto-Zionist and assimilationist. Born in Montpellier to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, he was raised in a liberal household. Antisemitic riots in Germany inspired Salvador to shift from his studies in medicine to Jewish antiquity, primarily as a means to uncover and disseminate historical reasons for Jewish pride. After graduation, he moved to Paris, where he briefly studied under the chief rabbi of Paris. Salvador theorized a new religion inspired by Enlightenment principles that fused Christianity and Judaism based on common roots in ancient Jewish faith and laws. He died in Versailles and was buried in a Protestant cemetery.

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Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, or the Religious Question in the Nineteenth Century

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