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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Interior of the Portuguese Synagogue, modeled after the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, Amsterdam 1695 by Romeyn de Hooghe. The history of the Jews in Amsterdam focuses on the historical center of the Dutch Jewish community, comprising both Portuguese Jews originally from both Spain and Portugal and Ashkenazi Jews, originally from central Europe.
Amsterdam in winter. Johan Cruyff Arena, a football stadium, home to Ajax football club. A'dam Tower, a 100-meter-high lookout near the IJ river. Begijnhof, one of the oldest inner courts in Amsterdam. Portuguese Synagogue, impressive building founded by the Sephardic Jewish community in 1670. El Tawheed Mosque, a mosque founded in 1986.
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]
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). ...