Jewish marriages in Amsterdam 1598-1811
Jewish Marriage in Amsterdam / Trouwen in Mokum 1598-1811 is the single, monumental genealogical sourcebook for Jews, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi and living in all parts of the world, in search of their ancestors having their roots in Amsterdam. Amsterdam was one of the main centers both of the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewry in the […]
Jewish first names in Amsterdam 1669-1850
In performing genealogical research of one’s Jewish ancestors one often comes across the difficulty that first names used in a Dutch deed (e.g. publication of the banns) do not correspond to the first names in the matching “Hebrew” deed. This observation led to the following questions: is this an incidental or a general phenomenon and […]
The Zeeburg burial books 1714-1811
Until the end of 1714 all deceased Jews of Ashkenazi origin in Amsterdam were buried at the Jewish cemetery Muiderberg. The bodies were transported to Muiderberg by tow boat. As the number of poor Jews in Amsterdam increased, the costs of transportation became too heavy a burden for the poor relief fund. In winter, when […]
Births and circumcisions in Amsterdam 1697-1811
The circumcision booklets of Amsterdam were written in Hebrew, and are generally of good reading quality. The number of remaining booklets is very low. About 100 booklets could be retrieved and they form part of the collection of Death, Marriage and Burial indexes at the Municipal Archive of Amsterdam (Stadsarchief Amsterdam). As the booklets were […]
De Boroboedoer van Amsterdam
The Amsterdam City Archive is housed in the ‘De Bazel Building’, named after its architect Karel de Bazel. The building was erected between 1919 and 1926 and commissioned by the Nederlandse Handel-Maatschappij, which dominated commerce within the Dutch colonies in the Netherlands East-Indies. This book discusses the truly unique design of the building, based on […]