Debate on Jewish Emancipation and Christian Theology in Old Berlin - Friedlnder, David a Schleiermacher, Friedrich a Teller, Wilhelm Abraham

When wealthy Jewish industrialist David Friedländer proposed in 1799 that Berlin's Jews undergo a sham conversion to Christianity in return for full German citizenship, he touched off a political and theological debate that would continue to define the relation between Jewish and German identity for more than a century.