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Jewish Historical Museum Description

(Local Name: Joods Historisch Museum) In 1987 the Jewish Historical Museum moved into its new premises - four redundant synagogues right next to the Waterlooplein. The first of the four synagogues, the Grote Synagoge, or Grote Sjoel, was built in 1670 but soon after its consecration was already proving too small. In 1686, therefore, a second, smaller synagogue, the Obbene Sjoel, was built behind the Great Synagogue and over the kosher slaughterhouse. The third synagogue, the Dritt Sjoel, was added in 1700 and finally, in 1752, the new synagogue, the Neie Sjoel, completed the complex. This was sold in its entirety to the City of Amsterdam by the Jewish Community in 1955. In the mid-1970s the city decided that it

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Hobbies & Activities category: Observe ethnic peoples, folk customs; Historical museum; Jewish site or artifact collection; Christian sites

Jewish Historical Museum Highlights

Docker Monument

In the square in front of the Jewish Historical Museum there is the statue of "the Docker". This is a monument commemorating the dockers' strike in February 1941 when they refused to co-operate with the deportation of their Jewish fellow citizens.

Great Synagogue

The Great Synagogue in Amsterdam houses the ritual objects in the collection - silver Torah containers, Torah robes and decorated Torah headdresses, hangings and baldaquins - and on the eastern

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New Synagogue

The tour of the Jewish Historical Museum complex begins in the New Synagogue where the visitor is introduced to "Aspects of the Jewish identity". Here the five crucial elements are seen as being

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Address

Amsterdam's Jewish History Museum
Box 16737
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland 1001 RE
Netherlands

http://www.jhm.nl

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