ABSTRACT
Now that Jews had acquired equal civil rights under the emancipation decree of 1796, they had an opportunity to go into politics. As early as 1798, two Amsterdam Jews were chosen to take seats in the parliament of the time, the second Constituent National Assembly. They were Hermannus Leonard Bromet (1724–1812) and the physician Hartog de Hartog De Lémon (1755–1823), the first Jews in Europe ever to be elected to a national parliament.
