French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte played a pivotal role in the emancipation of Europe’s Jews. He also set the stage for how Jews understand their own identity today by convening the Grand Sanhedrin and directing it to divide Jewish identity into two components - the religious and the national - and to discard the national in favor of loyalty to the French nation.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:31 The French Revolution
01:13 Jewish emancipation
01:52 Christian antisemitism
02:51 Napoleon Bonaparte and plan for Jewish assimilation
03:58 The Assembly of Jewish Notables
05:39 Do Jews see themselves as French?
06:25 Who's in charge of the Jews?
07:14 Are Jews going to destroy our economy?
08:05 The Grand Sanhedrin of Napoleon
10:03 Holding multiple identities
10:46 Defining our own identity

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