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They not only founded their own synagogues, but had a strong influence on the 'Amsterdam dialect' adding a large Yiddish local vocabulary. [139] Despite an absence of an official Jewish ghetto, most Jews preferred to live in the eastern part, which used to be the centre of medieval Amsterdam. The main street of this Jewish neighbourhood was ...
The name Sciphol appears in an official document from 1447. [10] According to the airport's media department, [11] the name of Schiphol might have several origins, all contested: As graveyard of ships. The Haarlemmermeer was a big, wild water mass, where many ships found their demise. As ship-haul, where ships were transferred from one water to ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Amsterdam, 2022. 1000 Names Wall for names retrieved and added later, 2022. ... Official website
The Amsterdam City Archives (Dutch: Stadsarchief Amsterdam) preserves documents pertaining to the history of Amsterdam and provides information about the city. With archives covering a shelf-length of about 50 kilometres, [ 2 ] the Amsterdam City Archives is the largest municipal archive in the world.
The 'official' museums of Amsterdam actually do not exist. The name is a misleading translation of the unofficial name of an unincorporated meeting club of mostly government subsidized museums who co-ordinate their marketing to monopolize further government subsidies for city marketing and government assistance.
The impact of the pamphlet is unknown; official missionary work in the Netherlands began two decades later. [7]: 9–11 Anne van der Woude was the first convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of Dutch origin. He was baptized in 1852 in Cardiff, Wales [8] and later became one of the first missionaries to the Netherlands.
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The Rijksmuseum (Dutch: [ˈrɛiksmyˌzeːjʏm] ⓘ) is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. [6] [7] The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Concertgebouw.