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  • MaryW commented on the word tolerance patent

    Emperor Joseph II, who reigned from 1780 to 1790, thought of himself as a modern man, and a good one. . . . By his decree, "No man shall be compelled in future to profess the religion of the state." This "tolerance patent" meant that, after 150 years, Czechs were once again free to practice the Protestant and Christian Orthodox faiths. Joseph also endeavored to integrate Bohemia's Jewish community—at the time the largest in the world—by lifitn grestrictions on employment, eliminating special taxes, and requiring the use of German in education.
    Madeleine Albright, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), p. 43.

    April 5, 2016