Foreword by Catherine Jones Finer
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Outline of the Book
Sources
1
Jewish Philanthropy: Power and Interests
Historical Perspectives
Defining Tzedakah
The Jewish Elite and the Jewish Poor
2
The Colquhoun–van Oven Scheme
Background to the Scheme
Principal Proposals of the Scheme
Opposition to the Scheme
Effects of the Failed Scheme
3 Wealth and Poverty: A Widening Gap
Educating the Poor
The Rich in Search of Power
The Faudel Scheme
4
The Jewish Board of Guardians
Ideologies And Policy
Controlling the Immigration of the Poor
Disciplining the Poor: Jewish Philanthropy and the Poor Law
5 Social, Economic and Cultural Policy of the Board
Finance: Checks and Balances
Restricted Policy Arrangements
Work
Loans
Health
Housing
Acculturation: Anglicization
Acculturation: Patronage and Anglicization
Schooling
Jewish Press
Social Organization Beyond the Jewish Elite
Jewish Philanthropy at the Turn of the Century: Incrementalism
and Survival
Conclusions
Appendix
I: Excerpts from Laws Concerning Gifts for the Poor – Mishneh
Torah by Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides, 1135–1204)
Appendix II: Selective Chronology: Developments of English
and Jewish Social Policy and Philanthropy
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index
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