This study analyses the texts of four patriotic speeches delivered by Italian Jewish orators during the revolutionary triennio (1796- 1799). Four additional documents − a chronicle, a song, a protest and a poem − are also presented with the aim of reconstructing an overview of the emotions generated by an event: Jewish emancipation. Filled with numerous biblical references, these texts reactivate an image of Jewish history understood as a crossing and a transition from slavery to freedom. As the first manifestation and exercise of emancipation, political expression marked for the Jews a return to History, or in other words, a rehabilitation in the historical present, which gave rise to intense feelings of joy, deliverance, renewal and gratitude. The Jews of Italy expressed an idea of political citizenship based on the values of religion, charity and universal brotherhood. Jewish political sentiment also took on heightened Messianic overtones.