TY - BOOK ID - 85475768 TI - Poverty and welfare among the Portuguese Jews in early modern Amsterdam PY - 2012 SN - 1800340435 1786949830 1904113575 9781786949837 9781904113577 PB - Liverpool, UK DB - UniCat KW - Jews KW - Poor KW - Poverty KW - Disadvantaged, Economically KW - Economically disadvantaged KW - Impoverished people KW - Low-income people KW - Pauperism KW - Poor, The KW - Poor people KW - Persons KW - Social classes KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - History. KW - Economic conditions. KW - Charities. KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism. KW - Economic conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85475768 AB - 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. ER -