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 -- Joseph's toleration policy in Trieste, 1781-82 -- Civic enlightenment as cultural policy: language and the Scuola Pia Normale sive Talmud Torà -- 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.