Political Emancipation in Europe

Jews should not be banned from entering the country and having some type of citizenship. We can see the progress they are making during this time towards making jews "legal" in a sense. The jews could be naturalized or granted citizenship. Some people believed that there was no way jews could assimilate so there was no reason to accept them into their countries and cultures. They thought that jews would never be as good as non-jews morally and culturally.
Katz talks about how make ashkenazic jews are conspicuous because of the way they dress, their beards and their way of speech (yiddish) which acted as a barrier for jews to be accepted by christians. Jews also had an accent when using the german language and this can be compared to the way US citizens compare peoples accents in the north vs the south. But this plays no role in whether people from the south are citizens of the US because they sound different. Although we have our stereotypes due to their accents it still doesn't change their citizenship.
In any given country a community can have control over its members which means they can possibly influence a persons religion, education, morals, laws and sometimes marriage. You being a part of this community is completely voluntary and in the jews case it was but they were paying taxes in their community and not always to the country they were in. So the french nation came up with an idea to get rid of the communal autonomy and now each jew would individually become a citizen to the country they were living in. This meant that they would now have to follow the laws of that country and have no more obligation to their jewish community if they didn't want to. It just made the country come together as one and not separate the jews from everyone else.