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Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer, eds. Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920 (2012) Daniel Soyer, Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939: Jewish Landmanshaftn in American Culture (2001) Jeffrey S. Gurock, When Harlem Was Jewish, 1870-1930 (1979)
The Temple of Israel is an historic former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 8 1 ⁄ 2 Mohawk Place in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York, in the United States. Rededicated as Templo Esperanza de Israel, the building has been used as a church since 2008.
The Joods Museum (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌjoːts ɦɪsˈtoːris myˈzeːjʏm]; English: Jewish Museum), part of the Jewish Cultural Quarter, is a museum in Amsterdam dedicated to Jewish history, culture and religion, in the Netherlands and worldwide. It is the only museum in the Netherlands dedicated to Jewish history.
The Joods Historisch Museum [43] is the center of Jewish culture in Amsterdam. Other Jewish cultural events include the Internationaal Joods Muziekfestival (International Jewish Music Festival) [44] and the Joods Film Festival (Jewish Film Festival). [45] The Anne Frank House hosts a permanent exhibit on the story of Anne Frank.
A Jewish Community Center or a Jewish Community Centre (JCC) is a general recreational, social, and fraternal organization serving the Jewish community in a number of cities. JCCs promote Jewish culture and heritage through holiday celebrations, Israel-related programming, and other Jewish education. However, they are open to everyone in the ...
The Center for Cultural Judaism provides grants through the Posen Project for the study of secular Jewish history and cultures. These grants are intended to cultivate and support the interdisciplinary study of secular Jewish history and cultures within already well-established university programs and departments of Jewish studies, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and other related ...
The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana is the Jewish cultural and historical collection of the University of Amsterdam Special Collections. The foundation of the collection is the personal library of Leeser Rosenthal, whose heirs presented the collection as a gift to the city of Amsterdam in 1880.
The building bearing the Star of David and the name of Petrus Plancius (1550-1622), the Renaissance Amsterdam clergyman and geographer, was built in 1876 by the Jewish singing society Oefening Baart Kunst (practice makes perfect). It served for several decades as a Jewish cultural center and synagogue.