Joods Historisch Museum

The Joods Historisch Museum is a flawlessly reestablished complex of four Ashkenazic synagogues from the seventeenth and eighteenth hundreds of years. Presentations demonstrate the ascent of Jewish endeavor and its part in the Dutch economy and the historical backdrop of Jews in the Netherlands.

A fantastic sound visit is incorporated and there's a little kids' gallery with a few exercises. The historical center's lasting show is housed between the 2 thousand structures - the Great Synagogue 1671 and the New Synagogue 1752. You will enter the barometrical Great Synagogue corridor first - the ground floor space is utilized to investigate the Jewish confidence and customs.

Numerous Jewish formal things are set in the setting of the synagogue itself. Heading upstairs is an area on the historical backdrop of Jews in the Netherlands in the vicinity of 1600 and 1900 - how the Jews touched base in the "tolerant" city of Amsterdam, what they did to bring home the bacon and the challenges they confronted.