Jews were not allowed to settle in many places until after 1700. Yair, Yael, Lael, Odelia, Netanya, Yoaz and Shilon are some of his grandkids with modern names, favored by the Israeli middle class. This accusation was added to other traditional blood libels against the Jews. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the community grew as Jews from the mediene (the "country" Jews), migrated to larger cities to seek better jobs and living conditions. For instance, the financial damage that class action suits could cause might far exceed the amounts the Dutch government intends to pay the Jewish community. Sources from the 14th century also mention Jewish residents in the cities of Antwerp and Mechelen and in the northern region of Geldern. This page was last edited on 8 December 2022, at 22:24. Especially in the neighbourhood of Buitenveldert there's a sizeable Jewish community. Lists of deceased persons. All those who wants membership has to add her/his relation to Dutch Jews, e.g. The Rabbi of the Portuguese-Spanish Synagogue in Amsterdam, still in use today, was Abraham Cohen Pimentel (died 21 March 1697). Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. During the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany in May 1940, the Jewish community was severely persecuted. The Jews were held responsible for the epidemic and for the way it was rapidly spreading, because presumably they were the ones who had poisoned the water of springs used by the Christians. Jews were admitted to Zeeland by Albert, Duke of Bavaria. When you visit the site, Dotdash Meredith and its partners may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Aakster Dutch. The Open Jewish Congregation OJG Klal Isral in Delft was founded at the end of 2005, to establish an accepting home for all Jews. Marriage contracts. Notably, in the early days when small groups of Jews were attempting to establish communities, they used the services of rabbis and other officials from either culture, depending on who was available. Dutch Jews The location of the Netherlands (dark green) in Europe Total population 41,100-45,000 [30,000 (Jewish mother) 15,000 (Jewish father)] [1] Regions with significant populations Amsterdam, Amstelveen, Rotterdam, The Hague Languages Dutch, Hebrew, Yiddish Religion Judaism Related ethnic groups Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardi Jews If you have a popular Dutch last name, you might find it on this list. Most prominently, the letter "" (ayin) is pronounced as "ng" ("ngayin"). The history of the Jews in the Netherlands began largely in the 16th century when they began to settle in Amsterdam and other cities. Though the number of Dutch Jews is decreasing,[citation needed] the last decades have seen a growth of Liberal Jewish communities throughout the country. They never coalesced into a real pillar. Amsterdam's Jewish community today numbers about 15,000 people. However, they were allowed to practice certain trades: printing, bookselling, and selling meat, poultry, groceries, and medicines. [56] It is the only Jewish psychiatric hospital currently operating in Europe. In 1700, the Jewish population of Amsterdam was 6,200, with Ashkenazim and Sephardim in almost equal numbers. These contractual agreements include the names of the bride and groom. Book 35 lists 526 Dutch victims who perished in Dachau, Flossenbrg, and Natzweiler. It is now Tamarah Benima. CS3010.S79 [Dutch Jewish Family Archive]. Frequency: 42,280 people in 2007; 29,919 in 1947A smid (smit) in the Netherlands is a blacksmith, making this a common Dutch occupational surname. Saal van Zwanenbergwas the producer of the Zwan meat products, but perhaps even better known as the founder of the pharmaceutical companyOrganon, and thus as the founder ofAkzoNobel. In 1642 about 600 Jews left Amsterdam for Brazil, accompanied by two distinguished scholars, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca and Moses Raphael de Aguilar. (Other sources claim that some 34,000 Jewish refugees entered the Netherlands between 1933 and 1940, mostly from Germany and Austria). His father, Hans Gosselaar, who is from the Netherlands, is of German and Dutch Jewish descent, and was a plant supervisor at Anheuser-Busch. Originally focusing on the Jewish segment of the Dutch population, and especially on Holocaust survivors who were faced with mental problems after the Second World War, nowadays the Sinai Centrum also provides care for non-Jewish victims of war and genocide. By World War II, it had 139 communities; it is made up of 36 congregations today. Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths, as well as census and population registers in the 19th and 20th centuries, include Jews since these records cover the entire population. 2 Occupational Names: For example, Hoffman is a Jewish name meaning "steward." Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. A native of Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania), Joshua Heschel ben Joseph Tzoref (Heschel Tzoref) (1633-1700 CE) received only a limited Jewish education and earned his livelihood as a silversmith. They also brought navigation knowledge and techniques from Portugal, which enabled the Netherlands to start competing in overseas trade with the Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yiddish, the lingua franca of Ashkenazim, and Judaeo-Portuguese, the previous language of the Portuguese Sephardim, practically ceased to be spoken among Dutch Jews. When Jews settled in the diocese of Utrecht is unknown, but rabbinical records regarding Jewish dietary laws speculated that the Jewish community there dated to Roman times. Kimberly Powell is a professional genealogist and the author of The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy. The FamilySearch Library has thousands of microfilms concerning Dutch Jews. Following is a list of people who died in the Holocaust, their birth and death dates, their places of residence before deportation, and the camps they were sent to: Jewish Community in the Netherlands If all you see, when opening this site, are pixels, don't worry, on the top right hand side is a name search area and on the bottom right hand side is a search area for Jewish families from a particular city. Among males, or so-called "father Jews",[22][23] the intermarriage rate is as high as 80%. 3. Reply. Especially mental health care was lacking and only started to develop from 1960 onwards in the Sinai centrum in Amersfoort. Among the distinguished Jews of this period were Meier Littwald Lehemon, Mozes Salomon Asser, Capadose, and the physicians David Heilbron, Davids (who introduced vaccination), Stein van Laun (tellurium), and many others.[5]. Goldmann Origin: Ashkenazi Meaning: Gold. Although the Ashkenazim had avoided civic registration, many had been using an unofficial system of surnames for hundreds of years. Sephardim or Sephardic Jews (sometimes referred to as Spanish and Portuguese Jews), were native to Sepharad, the Hebrew name for Spain and Portugal. The Portuguese Jews migrated most notably to the city of Amsterdam. He was known for corresponding widely with Christian leaders and helped to promote Jewish resettlement in England. He had close relations with the head of the DePinto family, at whose villa, Tulpenburg, near Ouderkerk, he and his wife paid more than one visit. 4. While some surnames such as Israel, Cohen, and Levi are purely Jewish, some are of German, Russian, or Polish origin. Popular Jewish Last Names 1. The surname of Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, for instance, harkens back to his family's origins in either the town of Espinosa de los Monteros or Espinosa de Cerrato. Frequency: 38,343 people in 2007; 25,753 in 1947This popular Dutch surnamederivesfrom the Dutchword boer, meaning "farmer. This book can be found at the FamilySearch Library, call number FS Library INTL 949.2 K32i. At its height in 1877, it represented 176 Jewish communities. She teaches at the Genealogical Institute of Pittsburgh and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. By 1795 the figure was 20,335, the vast majority being poor Ashkenazim from rural areas. The first four installments aired in 1960, were considered a turning point and left many Dutch, who until then had hardly had any notion of the gruesome depth of the Holocaust, aghast. This neighourbood also has a Jewish elderly home, an Orthodox synagogue and three Jewish schools. Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths, as well as census and population registers in the 19th and 20th centuries, include Jews since these records cover the entire population. ), aggregated from archive collections and user generated content. Yair, Yael, Lael, Odelia, Netanya, Yoaz and Shilon are some of his grandkids with modern names, favored by the Israeli middle class. Many smaller Jewish communities were started throughout the Dutch provinces. [54] It is home to some 50 elderly Jews. The Verbond voor Liberaal-Religieuze Joden in Nederland (LJG) (Union for Liberal-Religious Jews in the Netherlands) (to which all the communities mentioned above are part of) is affiliated to the World Union for Progressive Judaism. In addition, documentation can be found of instances in which Jews were abused and insulted, e.g., in the cities of Zutphen, Deventer and Utrecht, for allegedly desecrating the Host. Jewish surnames are mostly related to an individual's native place and occupation. The FamilySearch Library has thousands of microfilms concerning Dutch Jews. They were accused of piercing the Host used for communion and killing Christian children to use as a blood offering during Passover. This page has been viewed 25,661 times (904 via redirect). Search by clicking. The introduction in 1919 of equal suffrage for men and women was the completion of a long process. During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, approximately 75 percent of the Jewish population of the Netherlands was murdered in the Holocaust through deportation to concentration and extermination camps.[2]. Some years later, the Dutch in Brazil appealed for more craftsmen of all kinds, and many Jews heeded the call. Join Geni to explore your genealogy and family history in the World's Largest Family Tree. As a consequence of these two events, Jews persecuted in Spain and Portugal turned toward the Dutch Republic as a place of refuge. [13], Dutch Jews were a relatively small part of the population and showed a strong tendency towards internal migration. Abbas Damascus Abu Raish Damascus Abud Damascus Abulafia Damascus Ades Damascus Aghai Damascus Ajami Damascus / 563 Source: Avotaynu Online The names were collected from multiple sources by Jacob. Many of the Ashkenazim in the rural areas were no longer able to subsist and they migrated to the cities in search of work. Since then, the Dutch started adopting surnames. A new Liberal synagogue has been built (2010) in Amsterdam, 300 meters away from the current synagogue. In 1748, when a French army was at the frontier and the treasury was empty, De Pinto collected a large sum and presented it to the state. It is given to people who came from 'Aaldenberg,' a place of uncertain location. The survey revealed that antisemitism is more prevalent among Muslims: 12 percent of Muslim respondents expressed a "not positive" view of Dutch Jews, compared to two percent among Christian respondents. The Netherlands, and Amsterdam in particular, remained a major Jewish population centre until World War II. It is unique in Western Europe in that Jewish patients are cared for according to Orthodox Jewish law; kosher food is the only type of food available at the hospital. Lists surnames, given names, year recorded, and referencesto list where name was recorded. The society Nederlandse Kring voor Joodse Genealogie (Dutch Circle for Jewish Genealogy) has published many transcriptions of records relating to Dutch Jews. In 1477, by the marriage of Mary of Burgundy to the Archduke Maximilian, son of Emperor Frederick III, the Netherlands were united to Austria and its possessions passed to the crown of Spain. Religious tolerance was effectively an important constitutional element of the newly independent state. Stefanie is a freelance parenting writer and blogger, and has published works on other publications such as Motherly. century. Another 30% have a Jewish father (some 10,00015,000 persons; their number was estimated at 12,470 in April 2006). Census-type records are available for parts of the Netherlands. The Jews prospered in the independent Netherlands throughout the 19th century. Beit Ha'Chidush has links to Jewish Renewal in the United States, and Liberal Judaism in the United Kingdom. Additionally, certain vowels are different from the mainstream Ashkenazi pronunciation.[62]. Brandt Meaning: Burn or burnt. The work was reprinted six times during its first year, reaching the extraordinary print run of 150,000 still today a record in the history of publishing in the Netherlands. Aalfs Dutch The NVPJ has ten rabbis; some of them are: Menno ten Brink, David Lilienthal, Awraham Soetendorp, Edward van Voolen, Marianne van Praag, Navah-Tehillah Livingstone, Albert Ringer, Tamara Benima. Review of Altmuehltal-Radweg. It was founded in 1870, although Sephardic Jews had long been in the city. In 1571, the Duke of Alba notified the authorities of Arnhem that all Jews living there should be seized and held until their fates were determined. As they became established, they collectively brought new trading expertise and connections to the city. Baruch, Moshe, Elisheva and Yehuda are among the classics,. The series continued through 1964. Rioters massacred the majority of the Jews in the region and expelled those who survived. Book 34 lists 2,455 Dutch victims who perished in Neuengamme. "Networks of Colonial Entrepreneurs: The Founders of Jewish Settlements in Dutch America, 1650s and 1660s". Moses Moresco was appointed member of the municipality at Amsterdam; Moses Asser member of the court of justice there. The following list of the most commonly occurring surnames in the Netherlands, based on the 2007 census,includes details on each name's origin and meaning. Unlike the more acculturated Iberian Jews, most of these were displaced residents of Jewish ghettos escaping persecution. Aafjes Dutch Means "son of Aafje ". Education is mixed (boys and girls together) despite its affiliation to the Orthodox NIK. In practice, the great majority of Dutch people had family surnames for centuries, and the adoption of new names was limited to some Jewish citizens and some people in rural . There were also some 700 Catholic Jews living in the Netherlands [during the Nazi occupation] "). Means "teacher" in German (Yiddish (lerer) ). Mark-Paul Gosselaar was born March 1, 1974 in Panorama City, California. In, Williams, James Homer. The siddurim prayer books contain Hebrew text as well as a phonetic transcription and a translation in Dutch. Aaldenberg. Various medieval chronicles mention this, e.g., those of Radalphus de Rivo (c. 1403) of Tongeren, who wrote that Jews were murdered in the Brabant region and in the city of Zwolle because they were accused of spreading the Black Death. Kraus Meaning: Curly-haired. Aliyah from the Netherlands initially surpassed that of any other Western nation. German cognate of Long. Between 1347 and 1351, Europe was hit by the plague or Black Death. This allowed for several variations of one name. Additional information may be found in the Subject search under: Information Recorded in Synagogue Records, Jews Found in Records of Other Denominations, The Center for Research On The History of Dutch Jewry, Ashkenazi Amsterdam in the Eighteenth Century, https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=Netherlands_Jewish_Records&oldid=5091423, To view present-day Netherlands at Google Maps, click, For a Jewish population density map of Europe in 1900, click, Find others, possibly cousins, searching for your family name in the same countries, cities, and villages. ", Frequency: 30,111 people in 2007; 18,636 in 1947A patronymic name of Dutch, German, and English origin meaning "son of Peter.". The first service was held on 6 January 2005 in the historic Koornmarkt synagogue of Delft. Sure, you can research your Dutch ancestors on the big genealogy websites. In 2000, 20% of the Jewish-Dutch population was 65 years or older; birth rates among Jews were low. Part of NIKMedia is the Joodse Omroep,[57] which broadcasts documentaries, stories and interviews on a variety of Jewish topics every Sunday and Monday on the Nederland 2 television channel (except from the end of May until the beginning of September). They maintained foreign trade relationships in the Mediterranean, including Venice, the Levant and Morocco. The latter is chief rabbi of the Interprovinciaal Opperrabbinaat (the Dutch Rabbinical Organisation)[39] and vice-president of Cheider. Introduced by German-Jewish refugees in the early 1930s, nowadays some 3,500 Jews in the Netherlands are linked to one of several Liberal Jewish synagogues throughout the country. Goldschmidt: this Germanic name refers to an ancestor who worked as a goldsmith Green: adopting colors as surnames was popular among Austro-Hungarian Jews Greenberg: referring to the towns of Grunberg in Germany and Poland, both once home to Jewish communities Hakimi: this Persian surname is derived from the Arabic " Hakim " meaning wise By 1900, Amsterdam had 51,000 Jews, with 12,500 paupers; The Hague 5,754 Jews, with 846; Rotterdam 10,000, with 1,750; Groningen 2,400, with 613; Arnhem 1,224 with 349. When William IV was proclaimed stadholder (1747), the Jews found another protector. Later, this number was adjusted by Jewish organisations to some 24,000 Jews living in the Netherlands in 1954. Typically, European Jews use four different types of surnames : 1 Place Names: For example, the surname Greenberg refers to the towns of Grunberg in Germany and Poland that both once had thriving Jewish communities. Also under Napoleonic rule, an 1809 law required Dutch Jewish schools to teach in Dutch as well as Hebrew. See Category:Dutch-language surnames and Category:Surnames of Frisian origin for surnames with their own pages. Buitenveldert is considered a popular neighbourhood to live in; this is due to its low crime-rate and because it is considered to be a quiet neighbourhood. Jewish people are found in tax records, and many (but not all) Jewish marriages will be included in the civil marriage records before 1811. In 1655 a Sephardic Jew was exceptionally permitted to establish a sugar refinery using chemical methods. The WieWasWie.nl (WhoWasWho) website presents historical personal information (births, marriages, deaths, etc. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [44], Tzemach Hasadeh is a Jewish kindergarten in The Hague. You will also find below several categories of Dutch names along with their meanings. The Genealogy Page of Jorge Heredia and Heleen Sittig. The community uses the Uilenburger Synagoge[nl] in the center of Amsterdam. So surnames may not be. Both nursing homes are aligned to Orthodox Judaism; kosher food is available. Both nursing homes have their own synagogue. It has continued to the present. There are a couple of Jewish websites focusing on bringing Jewish news to the Dutch Jewish community. In 1349, the Duke of Guelders was authorized by the Emperor Louis IV of the Holy Roman Empire of Germany to receive Jews in his duchy, where they provided services, paid a tax and were protected by the law. Yet that surname we found in Holland in 1696. He required the Dutch to use a common family name instead of the original system they were using. There are some 350 elderly Jews currently residing in Beth Shalom. Some 9,000 Dutch Jews, out of a total of 30,000 (some 30%), are connected to one of the seven major Jewish religious organizations. The director, Danielle Kays, described "The Diary of Anne Frank" as one of her passion projects. Several Sephardic Jews stood out during that time, including Menasseh Ben Israel. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, and the sharp increase of understanding for the shoah, relations with non-Jews were gradually friendly. For some time, the Jewish presence consisted of, at most, small isolated communities and scattered families. As they settled in their new homes, they often affixed the names of their old hometowns to their given names, thus creating last names. The Jewish-Dutch population after the Second World War is marked by certain significant changes: disappointment, emigration, a low birth rate, and a high intermarriage rate. [40] They do not have membership dues and therefore most activities require money paid to participate. However, all the major colonial powers were competing fiercely for control of trade routes; the Dutch were relatively unsuccessful and during the 18th century, their economy went into decline. In the Netherlands, the tussenvoegsel is written with a capital letter if no name precedes it. Early sources from the 11th and 12th centuries mention official debates or disputations between Christians and Jews, in which attempts were made to convince the Jews of the truth of Christianity and to try to convert them. Local Jewish communities were often murdered in part or entirely or exiled in hysterical pogroms. [35], In June 2015, De Telegraaf published results of a report on antisemitism among youths, conducted by the Verwey Jonker Institute. Image: Depositphotos FamilySearch Library Records. In addition, there are records of name adoptions, many specific to Jewish people. This was a huge loss compared to the number of Jews counted in 1941. 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