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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.
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.
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Synagogues in Amsterdam (3 P) O. Orthodox synagogues in the Netherlands ... Delft Synagogue This page was last edited on 10 October 2020, at 23:48 (UTC). ...
The Passover Seder of the Portuguese Jews, Amsterdam (illustration circa 1733–1739 by Bernard Picart) The Jewish community of Amsterdam was self-governing, with the Imposta board overseeing communal and individual conduct until the establishment of the unified Ma'amad or governing committee in 1639, seven prominent men who had final say over ...
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 ...
In 1987, it moved to a new location, occupying four former synagogues on Jonas Daniël Meijerplein square, across the road from the Snoge or Portuguese Synagogue (for which joint tickets are sold). The museum was recognized in 1989 when it received the Council of Europe Museum Prize , awarded for a combination of the presentation of the ...
The Portuguese parliament approved changes to the system for granting nationality to descendants of Sephardic Jews on Friday, Jan.5, 2024.