The Records of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam

After the Inquisition, many Jews who had stayed on the Iberian peninsula eventually made their way to Amsterdam where they found a new home in which they could practice their religion without persecution. They built a large and influential community which can be studied in detail thanks to the extensive cache of documentation tportuhey archived, as well as the documentation archived by their new homeland of the Netherlands. In this program we will look at the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam by studying the expansive array of documentation through my own family research, and discussing how the Dutch are making it easier to access than ever before.