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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.
Some 270 families are connected to the PIK, also sometimes called PIG, (Portugees-Israëlitische Gemeente meaning "Portuguese Israelite Congregation"). It holds services in the monumental Esnoga synagogue or Snoge [1] in downtown Amsterdam near Waterlooplein. There is also a small PIG-Sephardic synagogue in Amstelveen with weekly activities ...
Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam) This page was last edited on 25 October 2024, at 02:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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 ...
Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam) U. Beit Ha'Chidush This page was last edited on 25 August 2024, at 13:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
These three communities began co-operating more closely in 1622. Eventually, in 1639, they merged to form Talmud Torah, the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam, which still exists today. The current Portuguese Synagogue, sometimes known as the "Amsterdam Esnoga", was inaugurated in 1675, of which Abraham Cohen Pimentel was the head Rabbi.
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). ...
Interior of the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam, c. 1680 The largest part of Spanish Jews expelled in 1492 fled to Portugal, where they eluded persecution for a few years. The Jewish community in Portugal was perhaps then some 15% of that country's population. [ 42 ]