Highlights

Stunning synagogues, striking buildings and impressive memorials grace the streets of Amsterdam's old Jewish district. In the heart of the neighbourhood is the Jewish Cultural Quarter, an area of less than one square kilometre that is home to the Jewish Historical Museum (including its Children's Museum), the stately Portuguese Synagogue with its centuries-old library Ets Haim, the Hollandsche Schouwburg, and the National Holocaust Museum (in development as of 2017).

In the Jewish Cultural Quarter, you can learn all about Jewish culture, history, and tradition. It offers a unique look at Jewish life in the Netherlands, in all its complexity.

In this book, the historian and journalist Ewoud Sanders describes fifty of the most beautiful and significant items in the collection.

All in all, this book presents a brief overview of the history and culture of Jews in the Netherlands from the Middle Ages to the present, on the basis of fifty exceptional objects.

The book is available in two languages, Dutch and English.