“Rescript” issued by the Magistrate of Magdeburg [Present-day Germany]: “[…] the government is determined not to protect (issue protection permits to) Jews in places where there weren’t any before, much less in the city of Magdeburg, because it contravenes the privileges of the city and legal guilds and other constitutions.”
Stern, Selma: Der Preussische Staat und die Juden; Erster Teil/Die Zeit des Großen Kurfürsten und Friedrichs I; Zweite Abteilung: Akten (The Prussian State and the Jews. Part One/The Period of the Great Prince-Elector and Frederick I); (Tübingen; 1962); Researched and Translated by Ziba Shadjaani 11/8/2019