Forging Freedom
The Life of Cerf Berr of Médelsheim
Nonfiction, History, Jewish, Biography & Memoir, Religious, Historical
| Author: | Margaret R. O’Leary | ISBN: | 9781475910155 |
| Publisher: | iUniverse | Publication: | June 5, 2012 |
| Imprint: | iUniverse | Language: | English |
| Author: | Margaret R. O’Leary |
| ISBN: | 9781475910155 |
| Publisher: | iUniverse |
| Publication: | June 5, 2012 |
| Imprint: | iUniverse |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
