Reference Type: Book Section
Author: Gyémánt, Ladislau
Year: 2000
Title: Limits of Tolerance in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century in Transylvania. The Case of the Jews
Editor: Kovács, András
Book Title: Jewish Studies at the Central European University, 1996-1999
City: Budapest
Publisher: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program
Volume: 1
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, history,Transylvania, tolerance, Interethnic relationships, social groups, religion, religious identity, Catholic Church, politics, stereotype, press, culture
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.
URL: http://web.ceu.hu/jewishstudies/pdf/01_ladislau.pdf