Forging Freedom: The Life of Cerf Berr of Médelsheim
- ISBN-10
- 1475910150
- ISBN-13
- 9781475910155
- Series
- Forging Freedom
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 458
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-06-05
- Publisher
- iUniverse
- Author
- Margaret R. O’Leary
Description
Forging Freedom is the first full-length biography of Cerf Berr of Mdelsheim (17261793), the formidable eighteenth-century emancipator of the French Jews. His early business providing forage for thousands of horses of the French military garrisoned in Alsace grew into a huge military supply business that earned him the profound respect of French Kings Louis XV and XVI. After receiving his French naturalization papers from Louis XVI as a reward for his service to the French Crown, Cerf Berr worked tirelessly on behalf of his Ashkenazi co-religionists to win their political emancipation in France on September 27, 1791.
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