The Patrons and Their Poor : : Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany /

The Patrons and Their Poor : : Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany / / Debra Kaplan.

A pregnant mother, a teacher who had fallen ill, a thirty-year-old homeless thief, refugees from war-torn communities, orphans, widows, the mentally disabled and domestic servants. What this diverse group of individuals—mentioned in a wide range of manuscript and print sources in German, Hebrew, and...

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Kaplan, Debra,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 20 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Currencies and Translations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Early Modern Jewish Communities and Their Records
  • Chapter 2. Something Happened to Charity in Early Modern Eu rope
  • Chapter 3. Charity, Economy, and Communal Discipline
  • Chapter 4. The Residential Poor
  • Chapter 5. The Transient Poor
  • Chapter 6. Constructing a Community of Donors
  • Epilogue. Charity Across Borders
  • Appendix. Foreign Jews in Frankfurt’s Judengasse, 1694
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Foreign Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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