From the second half of the 16th century, exiled Jews from Iberia, particularly from Portugal, started coming to Amsterdam, an up and coming city that had risen from the marshes in the previous centuries. Since then, Amsterdam has become the booming capital of the Netherlands and its erstwhile global empire. Jews have played an important role in Dutch, but particularly in the history of Amsterdam throughout the centuries. Giving the VOC and the Dutch an advantage over their Portuguese adversaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, allowing for trading opportunities and connections with the Ottoman Empire and other Sephardic Jewish communities across the world, and later became an important part of the fabric of life in the Netherlands.

00:00-01:14 - Intro
01:14-03:18 - Expulsion of Jews From Portugal
03:18-06:40 - Portuguese (Sephardic) Jews in Amsterdam
06:40-8:06 - Baruch Spinoza
08:06-09:50 - Jews and the Portuguese-Dutch Wars
09:50-12:00 - Jews in the Eighteenth Century Netherlands
12:00-13:55 - Ashkenazi Jews in Amsterdam
13:55-15:39 - Jews in the Nineteenth Century Netherlands
15:39-20:35 - The Holocaust in the Netherlands
20:37-23:09 - Jews in the Modern Netherlands


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