Place · Central Europe
Alsace
A rural region where debt and emancipation produced intense conflict.
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Before 1789, southwestern French Sephardim differed sharply from Jews in Alsace and Lorraine. Land purchases and currency change left Alsatian peasants indebted to Jewish creditors.
Community: Alsatian Jews, tied to rural credit and emancipation debate.
Land purchases and currency change left Alsatian peasants indebted to Jewish creditors.