Jewish Museum
Museum in four restored Ashkenazi synagogues tracing Jewish history, culture, and life in the Netherlands.
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This guide to the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam is set in the winter of 1944, when a starving, occupied Amsterdam saw desperate residents break into four seventeenth-century synagogues and dismantle sacred Torah Arks for fuel. It traces the history of these four buildings, the oldest consecrated in 1671, and the museum that reopened them in 1987 after decades standing empty. Listen for which of the four Arks is still here, and why.
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