The port Jews of Habsburg Trieste : absolutist politics and Enlightenment culture Foundations of the Free Port and the Jewish community in the eighteenth century Maria Theresa and the legal status of the Jews of Trieste: the privileges of 1771 Josephs toleration policy in Trieste 1781 82 Civic enlightenment as cultural policy: language and the Scuola Pia Normale sive Talmud Tor(c) Trieste and the Haskalah A decade of civil toleration: new rights and duties in the 1780s The Jewish community: public order piety and authority The Habsburg marriage reforms: challenges to religious communal authority Conclusion: civil inclusion of a Port Jewry in a reforming absolutist state