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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.
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.
The museum was inaugurated on March 10, 2024 by the Dutch monarch, Willem-Alexander.In his opening speech the king stated that the museum "brings to life the stories of people who were isolated from the rest of Dutch society, robbed of their rights, denied legal protection, rounded up, imprisoned, separated from their loved ones and murdered," identifying the root cause as antisemitism.
The Joods Historisch Museum [42] is the center of Jewish culture in Amsterdam. Other Jewish cultural events include the Internationaal Joods Muziekfestival (International Jewish Music Festival) [43] and the Joods Film Festival (Jewish Film Festival). [44] The Anne Frank House hosts a permanent exhibit on the story of Anne Frank.
The illustrious personnel of the nursery opposite the Hollandsche Schouwburg located at the Plantage Middenlaan in Amsterdam saved many Jewish children. This is described in the book of resistance member Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk. The Jewish Historical Museum took over administration of the building in 1992. Renovations the following year added a ...
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.
Throughout Passover, there will be a police presence at the Kraft Center, a Jewish cultural center shared by Columbia and Barnard, and campus public safety will provide walking escorts to and from ...
The Portuguese Synagogue has one of the oldest Jewish libraries in the world, filled with original and rare texts and constantly called upon for academic and rabbinical research. It was founded in 1616 and has been housed in the historical complex of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam since 1675.