Mémoire sur les Juifs

Résumé du livre

Presents an anti-antisemitic text by the early gentile Zionist, Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne (1735-1814). The tractate "Memoire sur les Juifs" (pp. 19-35) appeared originally in "Mélanges militaires, littéraires et sentimentaires" vol. 21 (Dresden, 1801). Ligne, who was an Austrian subject and a Walloon prince, proposed that the Jews turn to the ruler of the Ottoman Empire with a request to share the administration in Palestine. He felt that if the Jews were to leave Europe, where they had been mistreated, and return to the land that they left after their defeat in the war with the Roman Empire in 132-135, and participate in its administration, they would shed the negative traits that they had acquired due to persecution. Pp. 11-16 and 37-49 contain the foreword and epilogue by Pisetta. Pp. 50-58 provide biographical data on the Prince de Ligne.