King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid of Denmark will attend special services tomorrow, at the synagogue in Krystalgade, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the royal decree on March 29, 1814, which granted full civic rights and duties of Danish citizenship to the country’s Jewish population, it was announced here today.
The 1814 decree, which remained in effect even during the five years of the Nazi occupation of Denmark, provided for Jewish religious instruction and recognized the Danish Jewish communities as the regulating authority for all the religious affairs of the Jews of each city.
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