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Napoleon and the Jews in 10 Minutes
Explore the dramatic and controversial intersection of the Enlightenment and the Jewish world in our episode on Napoleon and the Jews. As Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armée swept across Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, he didn't just conquer territory—he systematically tore down the walls of the ghettos, granting Jews full civil rights and legal equality in the name of the French Revolution. In this installment, we unpack the high-stakes political theater of the Grand Sanhedrin of 1807, where Napoleon summoned seventy-one rabbis and lay leaders to Paris to prove that Jewish law…
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