Emancipation and Poverty: The Ashkenazi Jews of Amsterdam, 1796-1850 (St. Antonys)
by Karina Sonnenberg-Stern
Category: Amsterdam (Netherlands)

It also uncovers some relatively unknown territory regarding Dutch-Jewish history: the ambiguities and limits of establishing a Dutch-Jewish community around 1600, the legal and social disabilities which ensued as a result of the influx of impoverished Ashkenazim during the seventeenth century, and details of the lives of the Jewish poor living in nineteenth-century Amsterdam."--Jacket.