ISBN:
1-80034-043-5
,
1-78694-983-0
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvi, 590 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Series Statement:
Liverpool scholarship online
Series Statement:
Liverpool scholarship online.
DDC:
305.892/40492352
Keywords:
Jews History.
;
Jews Economic conditions.
;
Jews Charities.
;
Poor
;
Poverty Religious aspects
;
Judaism.
Abstract:
The reputed wealth and benevolence of the Portuguese Jews of early modern Amsterdam attracted many impoverished people to the city, both ex-Conversos from the Iberian peninsula and Jews from many other countries. In describing the consequences of that migration in terms of demography, admission policy, charitable institutions-public and private-philanthropy and daily life, and the dynamics of the relationship between the rich and the poor, Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld adds a nuanced new dimension to the understanding of Jewish life in the early modern period.
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Setting the scene -- 2. Migration of the poor -- 3. Demographic outline -- 4. The organization of welfare -- 5. Financing charity -- 6. The motives behind charity -- 7. The daily life of the poor -- 8. Epilogue.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Nov 2019).
DOI:
10.3828/9781904113577
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