Vindication of the Jews
Zalkind Hourwitz
1789
The means of making the Jews happy and useful? Here it is: stop making them unhappy and unuseful. Accord them, or rather return to them the right of citizens, which you have denied them, against all divine and human laws and against your own interests, like a man who thoughtlessly cripples himself. . . .
To be sure, during times of barbarism, there…
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