Abstract
ABSTRACTPhilipp Alexander David (1730–1808), the son of the prominent court Jew Alexander David (1687–1765) in Braunschweig, expressed his wish to convert to Christianity in 1752. This triggered a complex, fast-paced discourse among and between Christians and Jews about conversion, divorce, custody of children, and the status of minorities. An intense public theological discourse between Lutheran and Pietist Protestant theologians in Halle and Helmstedt revealed a clash of religious ideals with natural parental rights. Traditional patriarchic views of marriage and family contrasted with an emerging enlightened perspective of the rights of the mother.
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