Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester c.1850–1914

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ID19968569
AuthorsRainer Liedtke (corresponding author)
Year1998
Pages266
Publication date1998-07-30
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueJewish welfare in Hamburg and Manchester, c. 1850-1914 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207238.001.0001
OpenAlexW2079328427
Open LibraryOL702117M
ISBN9780198207238
LanguageEN
Citations received13

This comparative history of Jewish welfare in Hamburg and Manchester highlights Jewish integration and identity formation in nineteenth-century Europe. Despite their fundamentally different historical experiences, the Jews of both cities displayed very similar patterns of welfare organization. This is illustrated by an analysis of community-wide Jewish welfare bodies and institutions, provisions for Eastern European Jewish immigrants and transmigrants, the importance of women in Jewish welfare, and the function of specialized Jewish voluntary welfare associations. The realm of welfare was vital for the preservation of secular Jewish identities and the maintenance of internal social balances. Dr Liedtke demonstrates how these virtually self-sufficient Jewish welfare systems became important components of distinctive Jewish subcultures. He shows that, though it was intended to promote Jewish integration, the separate organization of welfare in practice served to segregate Jews from non-Jews in this very important sphere of everyday life

Archaeology · Genealogy · Haskalah · Immigration · Jewish identity · Jewish studies · Judaism · Political science · Realm · Social Welfare · Sociology · Welfare · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Charities · England · Ethnic relations · Germany · Great britain · Hamburg · Jews · Joden · Juden · Liefdadigheid · Manchester · Manchester (England) · Social conditions · Soziale Wohlfahrt · Wohlfahrt

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