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Jewish leftism arguably has its philosophic roots in the Jewish Enlightenment, or Haskalah, led by thinkers such as Moses Mendelssohn, as well as the support of many European Jews such as Ludwig Börne for republican ideals in the aftermath of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a movement for Jewish Emancipation spread across Europe, strongly associated with the emergence of political liberalism, based on the Enlightenment principles of rights and equality under the law.
Because liberals represented the political left of the time ( see left-right politics ), emancipated Jews, as they entered the political culture of the nations where they lived, became closely associated with liberal parties.
Thus, many Jews supported the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789, and the European Revolutions of 1848 ; while Jews in England tended to vote for the Liberal Party, which had led the parliamentary struggle for Jewish Emancipation — an arrangement called by some scholars “ the liberal Jewish compromise ”.
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