Talk:Magdeburg rights
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Note: Added material from the Jewish Encylopedia, and the Catholic Encyclopedia, both of which are public domain resources. The Anome 08:43 Feb 26, 2003 (UTC)
Note: changed spelling into a nowadays used names of Lithuanian towns and grand dukes.
Someone has to merge all three sections of this wpedia entry into one - I would like this to do some neutral person, i.e. not a Jew, not a Lithuanian (this one I belong to :), not a German, nor a Polish - it seems to me, that all these nations have some aliased and non-objective view of this historic fact :)))
Did the merge. Now, the problem with quoting from the Jewish Encyclopedia is that the rules about Jews were only a tiny part of the set of Rights, and quoting that in its entirety blows the article out of proportion. So I took out this, which didn't seem fit to me:
- In Vilnius, where the Magdeburg law was granted to the municipality as early as the fourteenth century, the Jews were expressly excluded from its benefits, but in the near-by city of Trakai the Jewish community secured from Grand Duke Kazimieras Jogaila the Magdeburg Rights for itself, and independently of the Christian community, which had received the same rights earlier. This grant, dated March 27, 1444, gave the Jews of Trakai equal rights with their Christian neighbors (see Lithuania).
