The chapter compares the debate over Christian Wilhelm Dohm’s call for the ‘civic improvement’ of the Jews (Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Juden, 1781) to a discussion of a proposal for confessional union between the Jewish and Protestant communities in Berlin (1799), thereby highlighting the changing languages of political reform in Brandenburg-Prussia from the early 1780s to c. 1800. Various contemporary conceptions of the interrelationship between the state and religious associations are examined; particular attention is dedicated to works by Dohm, Moses Mendelssohn, Wilhelm von Humboldt, David Friedländer, and Friedrich Schleiermacher.
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