I'm not blaming christianity, I'm saying the egalitarian and universalist set of ideas/principles has its roots in it Consider christian charity or the teachings of jesus, this is typically what I'm referring to by "egalitarian and universalist set of ideas/principles", it's the polar opposite of judaism which encourages ethnic and religious and class discrimination at every level. For the era it was a revolution, for the rest of the world it was a revolution, jesus opened the religion to gentiles, no more discrimination on the basis of whether it's a "jew" or not To this day for instance, islamic charity still discriminates between muslims and the rest when it comes to charity, it's muslim first and sometimes only, same could be said about judaism it's even worse, much worse, you're barred from helping non jews in many instances unless not helping will end up endangering jews That being said you're right, napoleon emancipated the jews wherever he went, he ended much of the discriminatory practices against them