Dowries and Dotar: An Unbroken Chain of 400 Years

By Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld

The Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam is the guardian of a long and rich history with many old traditions. One of them is the charity organization Dotar, founded in 1615 - and still active today - to help poor girls acquire a dowry. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary, award-winning historian Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld describes the organization and the most important developments in its history.

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106 pages