Author : Karina Sonnenberg-Stern
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312227760
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Emancipation and Poverty by : Karina Sonnenberg-Stern
Download or read book Emancipation and Poverty written by Karina Sonnenberg-Stern and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.