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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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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 ...
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Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam) S. Sephardic Jews in the Netherlands; Spanish Synagogue (Venice) This page was last edited on 5 December 2020, at 19:17 (UTC). ...
By the 1680s, the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam went into decline, in spite of having built a new synagogue, the monumental Esnoga, which was inaugurated in 1675. With the Netherlands experiencing economic difficulty (in part due to loss of New World colonies) some Jews left and immigration slowed.