Jewish Dutch Elite in Transition

The Jewish Dutch Elite in Transition: Patterns of Social Mobility and Integration, 1870-1940 offers the first systematic, large-scale analysis of the upward social mobility and integration of Jewish members of the Dutch economic, political, and cultural elites. Considering the lives of over seven hundred individuals, the first two chapters study the domains of work, education, place of residence, religious affiliation, marriage, and association membership. The latter three chapters are case studies focusing on gender, spatial experience, and empire. This book is a significant contribution to the research on European Jewish history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, offering new insights into the varied modern Jewish experience from a Dutch perspective.