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The founding of the London Bet Holim hospital in 1748 and the secularization of sedaca in the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community in the eighteenth century⋆
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In addition to changing the governance structure associated with Jewish charity, the hospital embarked on a new pattern of giving that reflected the influence of non-Jewish attitudes to charitable giving: instead of the more traditional form of donating posthumously by bequests, Londoners in the mid-eighteenth century found that the answer to alleviating poverty was in the so-called associational charities.[63]
The Amsterdam Sephardi community did not have a hospital until 1834. (In the New World, the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati, established in 1850, was the first.)[109] The Sephardi leaders in London dedicated themselves to the service of their Bevis Marks congregation and its poor
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The founding of the London Bet Holim hospital in 1748 and the secularization of sedaca in the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community in the eighteenth century*. What is relevant here about Ruderman’s interpretation is his view that the writings of these English Jewish intellectuals are the historical testimony as to how Judaism was evolving during this time.[13] Following this new approach to the study of early modern Anglo-Jewry, I interpret the founding of the Bet Holim hospital, as well as other charitable institutions that were founded shortly after, as part of the London Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community’s response to modernity. They were required to attend funerals.[46]
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