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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.
Besides merchants, a great number of physicians were among the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam, including Samuel Abravanel, David Nieto, Elijah Montalto, and the Bueno family. Joseph Bueno was consulted in the illness of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (April 1623). Jews were admitted as students at the university, where they ...
Emanuel de Witte: Interior of the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam ; ... Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: Location: Amsterdam. Coordinates: 52° 21′ 36″ N, 4° 53′ 07″ E :
Earlier, the king and the Israeli president visited Amsterdam’s famous Portuguese Synagogue. Herzog hailed the Netherlands's initiative to create a new Holocaust museum amid what he said was ...
The most important synagogue, or Esnoga, as it is usually called amongst Spanish and Portuguese Jews, is the Amsterdam Esnoga—usually considered the "mother synagogue", and the historical center of the Amsterdam minhag.
The Spanish Synagogue (Scola Spagnola) of Venice was originally regarded as the "mother synagogue" for the Spanish and Portuguese community worldwide, as it was among the earliest to be established, and the first prayer book was published there. Later communities, such as in Amsterdam, followed its lead on ritual questions.
The Portugees-Israëlitisch Kerkgenootschap (PIK) (Portuguese Israelite Religious Community) is the community for Sephardic Jews in the Netherlands. Sephardic Jews have been living in the Netherlands since the 16th century with the forced relocation of Spanish but above all Portuguese Jews Jews from their home countries due to the Inquisition.
Three Portuguese Jewish congregations soon built synagogues on the island. [2] Jacob Tirado , one of the founders of the Spanish-Portuguese Sephardic community of Amsterdam , acquired a house on the Houtgracht which he transformed it into Amsterdam's first synagogue.