This book is the first comprehensive study examining the impact of emancipation on the lives of Amsterdam's Jews. The enactment of equality in 1796 failed to provide these Jews with similar rights and opportunities as the non-Jews; two-thirds of Amsterdam's Jewish community remained poor for much of the nineteenth century. Even though the declaration of emancipation should have provided the Jews with legal and social equality, the Dutch authorities continued to retain their perception of the Jews as a separate and different group of predominantly uncultured paupers and never made it their priority to remove all restrictive measures.

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Karina Sonnenberg-Stern is currently researching the experience of German Jewish refugee women in Britain during the 1940s.

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Book Title: Emancipation & Poverty: The Ashkenazi Jews of Amsterdam
Authors: Karina Sonnenberg-Stern
Series Title: St Antony's Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985366
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-0-333-98536-6Published: 27 January 2000
Series ISSN: 2633-5964
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 236
Topics: European History, Modern History, Cultural Studies, Jewish Cultural Studies, Development Aid

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

The Nature of Emancipation in Europe

The Ambiguities and Limits of Establishing a Jewish Community pre-1796

The Uncertain Terms of Jewish Emancipation, 1796–1813

Prejudice and Intolerance: Amsterdam’s Treatment of the Jewish Poor

Education: An Attempt to Reform and Acculturate the Jewish Poor

Conclusion

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