Reference Type: Book Section
Author: Gyémánt, Ladislau
Year: 1999
Title: The limits of the tolerance in Transylvania during the first half of the 19th century. The Jewish case
Editor: Institutul de Istorie "Nicolae Iorga", Bucureşti - Stanciu, Ion
Book Title: The Jews in the Romanian history. Papers from the International Symposium. Bucharest, September 30 - October 4, 1996
City: Bucureşti
Publisher: Silex
Pages: 70-78
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, tolerance, religion, modernization, politics, Catholic Church, interethnic relationships, antisemitism, press, emancipation
Abstract: En) Promotion of religious tolerance was one of the essential elements of the eighteenth-century Austrian program of reforms inspired by Enlightenment ideology. These reforms
were directed towards the modernization of the empire with the intention of consolidating its precarious unity. This constitutive element acquired a special importance in respect to the
cultural variety and denominational pluralism represented by the Great Principality of Transylvania, where the social equilibrium depended fundamentally upon the maintenance of
an atmosphere of tolerance, acceptable to all inhabitants