num_pages: 224
description: This study shows how a centrally-planned philanthropy developed within the London Jewish community in the 19th century, culminating in the establishment and development of the Jewish Board of Guardians. The process involved crucial power relations within the Jewish community and the wider British society. Jewish philanthropy was adapted by the Jewish elite and modified accordingly to contemporary ideologies to become a base for social control of the poor.
language: English
title: The Rich and the Poor: Jewish Philanthropy and Social Control in Nineteenth-Century London
titlecomplete: The Rich and the Poor: Jewish Philanthropy and Social Control in Nineteenth-Century London
publisher: Sussex Academic Press