By the end of the 16th century, Jews fled from Spain and Portugal the Inquisition and settled in the upcoming Amsterdam. Jews from Germany and Eastern Europe followed. Amsterdam became their Mokum, a second Jerusalem.
By the end of the 16th century, Jews fled from Spain and Portugal the Inquisition and settled in the upcoming Amsterdam. Jews from Germany and Eastern Europe followed. Amsterdam became their Mokum, a second Jerusalem.
Amsterdam has historically been the centre of the Dutch Jewish community for the last 400 years. Amsterdam is also known under the name "Mokum", given to the city by its Jewish inhabitants ("Mokum" is Yiddish for "town", derived from the Hebrew "makom", which literally means "place").
Only a small percentage of the 80,000 Jews in Amsterdam survived the Holocaust and returned from camps and their places of hiding to their city. The community's great synagogue-complex (now home to the Jewish Museum) remained empty and had to be exchanged for smaller place of worship outside the city center.
Stunning synagogues, striking buildings and impressive memorials, like the Jewish Museum, the stately Portuguese Synagogue and the National Holocaust Memorial can all be visited in Amsterdam's Old Jewish Quarter.
The beautiful interior of the Portuguese Synagogue
AMOS Amsterdam Modern Orthodox Shul
Kalfjeslaan 376, Amsterdam Buitenveldert
Amstelveen Shul
Max Havelaarlaan 435, Amstelveen
Beit Ha'Chidush Uilenburger Synagoge
an independent modern-progressive Jewish community for anyone with a Jewish background, both paternal and maternal
Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91, Amsterdam Centrum
Beis HaMedrasj Ets Chaim
Merckenburg 3, Amsterdam Buitenveldert
Beth Shalom Jewish nursing home with its own shul
Kastelenstraat 80, Amsterdam Buitenveldert
Esnoga Amstelveen Portuguese (Sephardic) Synagogue
Texelstraat 82, Amstelveen
Gerard Dou Synagogue Tesjoengat Israel / Ashkenazi shul
Gerard Doustraat 238, Amsterdam De Pijp
JCC Shul Jewish Cultural Centre / Ashkenazi shul
Van der Boechorststraat 26, Amsterdam Buitenveldert
JZA Shul Jewish Amstelland Hospital
Laan van de Helende Meesters 8, Amstelveen
Kehilas Ja'akow Synagogue
Gerrit van der Veenstraat 26, Amsterdam Oud-Zuid
Lek Shul
Lekstraat 61, Amsterdam Rivierenbuurt
LJG Liberal Jewish Community Amsterdam
Zuidelijke Wandelweg 41, Amsterdam Rivierenbuurt
Monthly Minyan Amsterdam
Nidchei Jisrael Jechaneis Synagogue 'Russian Shul'
Nieuwe Kerkstraat 149, Amsterdam Plantage
Portuguese Synagogue Esnoga Amsterdam
Mr. Visserplein 3, Amsterdam Waterlooplein
RAS Synagoge Raw Aron Schuster Synagoge (Obrechtsjoel)
Heinzestraat 1, Amsterdam Oud-Zuid
Shul West
Willem Schoutenstraat 8, Amsterdam De Baarsjes, West
NIHS is an orthodox Ashkenazi congregation, that dates back to 1635, with approx. 2000 members, who support the complete Jewish infrastructure in the city (including: kashrut, synagogues, mikwah, rabbinate, social service and cemeteries and subsidies to Jewish elementary and secondary schools.
For information on specific times of services, please contact NIHS
Amsterdam's Jewish community today numbers about 15,000 people. A large number live in the neighborhoods of Buitenveldert, Oud-Zuid and Rivierenbuurt.
Especially in the neighborhood of Buitenveldert there's a sizeable Jewish community. In this area, Kosher food is widely available. There are several Kosher restaurants, 2 bakeries, Jewish-Israeli shops, a pizzeria and some supermarkets host a Kosher department. Buitenveldert also has a Jewish elderly home, an Orthodox synagogue and 3 Jewish schools.
providing Shabbat meal packages, delivered to your hotel
Jacobs Kosjere Catering Oldenaller 2, Amsterdam Buitenveldertfrozen meat and other kosher items stored in designated areas and special freezers
Albert Heijn XL Gelderlandplein 47, Amsterdam Buitenveldertinformation available at the offices of the NIK , the umbrella organisation for Jewish Communities in Holland
