Judereglementet

The regulations came about as a result of King Gustav III allowing Jews to come to Sweden in the 1770s and obtain civil rights without converting.

The minimum capital stipulated was two thousand riksdaler that included clothes, effects, household inventory, running costs, and ready cash as well as bills of exchange.

[3] Despite the restrictions, a Jewish congregation was established in Karlskrona after a few years, and another one existed for a short time in Marstrand, whose porto franco privileges in the 1770s and 1780s placed the town outside of normal Swedish law.

Judereglementet specified occupations such as engraving, the cutting of diamonds and other precious stones, and making instruments, while trading in gold was restricted to the guilds.

[5][2] After the French Revolution of 1830, a wave of liberalism swept across Europe, opposing the privileges of the guilds and aristocracy and demanding inalienable human rights, including the emancipation of the Jews.