Eight Edicts Concerning the Jews – Stockholm, 1782-1815 – An Edict Permitting Jews to Enter Sweden

Eight Edicts Concerning the Jews – Stockholm, 1782-1815 – An Edict Permitting Jews to Enter Sweden
Eight edicts issued by the king of Sweden (Kunglig Majestät - King in Council) permitting Jews to settle in Sweden, and listing their rights and limitations. Stockholm: Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1782-1815. Swedish.
In 1782, about a century after the Jews had been expelled from Sweden, King Gustav III issued an edict allowing Jews to return and live in three cities: Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Norrköping. This was the beginning of the Jewish community in Sweden, the largest of the Jewish communities in Scandinavia, which exists to this day. These edicts, published in the decades close to the Jews' arrival to Sweden, document their lives, rights and limitations at that early period.
Among the edicts: edict from May 27, 1782, allowing Jews to return to settle in Sweden for the first time in a century; an edict from May 6, 1790, forbidding Jews to trade in silver or gold; edict dated February 8, 1802, forbidding Jews and Italians to travel throughout the kingdom on business without special permission; edict dated July 13, 1807, concerning study and services for Jews involved in retail or wholesale commerce; edict dated August 31, 1815, forbidding additional Jews to settle in the kingdom, except for special cases. (Not in NLI); and more.
A detailed list will be sent upon request.
Eight edicts: a seven-page booklet, and seven leaflets folded in half (four pages per leaflet). Size and condition vary. Average size: approx. 20 cm. Good-fair overall condition. Pen inscriptions on some of the leaves. Stains and creases. Tears, open tears and pinholes at the edges of the leaves and along the spine. Folding marks to some. One of the edicts may be missing two leaves.