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- The Houtgracht (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦʌutˌxrɑxt]; Wood Canal) was a canal in Amsterdam that defined one side of Vlooienburg island. Houtgracht and the...
- Torah at Houtgracht served until 1675. Judah Leon Templo lived on Vlooienburg, Men****eh Ben Israel, Baruch Spinoza and family lived at Houtgracht opposite...
- father was a parn****im and the school was located in the adjacent house at Houtgracht. The first Ashke****m, Jews from Central and Eastern Europe, who arrived...
- Vroom, a physician from Breda, as well as by the house behind it on the Houtgracht ["Wood Canal"]. Subsequently, also in 1682, a neighboring property owned...
- district. Waterlooplein was created in 1882 when the Leprozengracht and Houtgracht canals were filled in. The square became a marketplace when the city government...
- River Amstel, known as the Vlooienburg, at the fifth house along the Houtgracht canal. The Jewish quarter was not formally divided. The family lived close...
- after 1882, when two canals, the Leprozengracht "Lepers Canal" and the Houtgracht "Wood Canal", were filled in. The first Jews to settle in Amsterdam were...
- one side of the Vlooienburg island. Leprozengracht and the connected Houtgracht canal were filled in 1882 to form the Waterlooplein. The Sint Anthoniusgast****s...
- Amsterdam, being its first president. Having acquired a house on the Houtgracht, he transformed it into Amsterdam's first synagogue, which was called...