Jewish Quarter Private Walking Tour
Amsterdam is the city that has the largest diversity in the world when it comes to communities, ethnic groups, and religions! Immigrants from all over built this successful and liberal city. Jews have been part of this process since the early days. Around 1650 a group of prominent Sephardic Jews started building a synagogue at the Daniel Meijerplein near the former Jewish quarter of Amsterdam; at the time it was the largest synagogue in the world. Opposite this stunning temple sits a complex of three synagogues built by Ashkenazi Jews. It now houses the Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum.
During our Jewish history private walking tour, you will go through the Jewish old town with a local insider, get to know about the people that inhabited this place and how they played an important role in the history of Amsterdam.
“Toms Travel Tours provided a guided walking tour of Amsterdam and then a 90-minute private canal tour with drinks and lunch. Both were fantastic. The walking tour guide, Ingrid, was flexible with the tour because we had done some exploring on our own the previous day so Ingrid took us all around the Jewish section of old town and provided some great historical commentary. She answered all of our questions and pointed out some great things in the city that we never would have seen on our own.”
Did you know some of these Jewish Amsterdam history facts?
Amsterdam is also known as Mokum, the yiddish word for town
Six of Amsterdam’s city mayors have been Jewish, the most recent being Job Cohen (2001-2010)
The beautiful Tuschinski theater combining Art Nouveau, Art Deco and other modern architectural design was commissioned by Polish-Jewish-Dutch businessman, Abraham Icek Tuschinski
Today’s Jewish community in the city is around 20,000 people.