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The exhibition of Roman Vishniac's photos at Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum, 2014. The museum's collection includes some 11,000 art objects, ceremonial objects and historical objects, only some five percent of which is on display at any one time. It has two permanent exhibitions as well as regularly changing temporary exhibitions.
"A narrative of absence: monumental synagogue architecture in late nineteenth-century Amsterdam." Jewish History 25.1 (2011): 43–67. Sutcliffe, Adam. "Identity, space and intercultural contact in the urban entrepôt: The Sephardic bounding of community in early modern Amsterdam and London." Jewish Culture and History 7.1-2 (2004): 93-108 ...
The Holocaust Memorial Center's stated mission is to "engage, educate, and empower by remembering the Holocaust. [8] In doing so, the Memorial Center engages in a number of community activities, [9] hosts tours for public schools, universities, institutions and interested tour groups, [10] curates an expansive library archive [11] and a gallery dedicated to art and historical exhibits, [12 ...
The first Ashkenazi shul, the Great Synagogue ( now the Jewish Historical Museum), and the fifth Sephardi shul, the Portuguese-Israelite Synagogue, were opened in 1671 and 1675, respectively, immortalized by the engravings of the Dutchman, Romeyn de Hooghe ( 1645–1708 ). The Portuguese Synagogue was the place where Spinoza was placed under ...
Further monuments and a museum commemorating the Holocaust are the nearby Auschwitz Monument by Jan Wolkers in the Wertheim Park to the east of the Holocaust Names Memorial, and the Dutch National Holocaust Museum at Plantage Middenlaan 27, Amsterdam, opened on 11 March 2024. [5]
House Bill 4177, introduced by state Rep. Tyrone Carter, D-Detroit, would allow counties to establish historical museum authorities — and the bill is written to allow the Wright and the Detroit ...
The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, housed in a former synagogue, has a major collection relating to Jewish history in the Netherlands. Starting in the late twentieth century, there are official public spaces marking the Holocaust in the Netherlands , including the Dutch National Holocaust Museum , inaugurated by the Dutch king in 2024.
In the 1980s the Metro Detroit Jewish community lived in several municipalities. [5] Barry Steifel, author of The Jewish Community of Metro Detroit 1945–2005, wrote that in the 1980s "the new, collective foci of the Jewish community" were several municipalities in Oakland County and western Wayne County which housed "massive congregations". [11]