Emancipation and poverty : the Ashkenazi Jews of Amsterdam, 1796-1850 /
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| Author / Creator: | Sonnenberg-Stern, Karina, 1966- |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] : Macmillan in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000. |
| Description: | xvi, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | St. Antony's series |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4239823 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures, Maps and Tables
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. The Nature of Emancipation in Europe
- Germany
- France
- Britain
- The particular case of Dutch Jewry's emancipation
- 2. The Ambiguities and Limits of Establishing a Jewish Community pre-1796
- Jewish settlement in the Netherlands
- Legal and social disabilities
- 3. The Uncertain Terms of Jewish Emancipation, 1796-1813
- The conditional realisation of emancipation
- Louis Napoleon's failure to abolish discriminatory legislation
- 4. Prejudice and Intolerance: Amsterdam's Treatment of the Jewish Poor
- The Dutch authorities' domination of Dutch Jewry
- Poverty and poor relief in nineteenth-century Amsterdam
- The Jewish poor of nineteenth-century Amsterdam
- The practice of discrimination
- 5. Education: An Attempt to Reform and Acculturate the Jewish Poor
- Traditional Jewish education
- The proposed programme of reform
- The failure of education to regenerate Dutch Jewry
- The pursuit of discrimination
- Jewish resistance to secular education
- The impossibility of acculturation and assimilation
- 6. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Primary sources
- ARA Algemeen Rijksarchief, Den Haag
- GAA Gemeente Archief, Amsterdam
- Newspapers and periodicals
- Other printed primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Index