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The Passing of Amsterdam's Ghetto

Famous Historic Jewish Quarter Condemned and Ordered Razed by
Municipal Authorities

An interesting account of the
passing of the Jewish Ghetto of
Amsterdam, the picturesque quar-
ter so intimately connected with the
history of the Jewish people in Hol-
land, is told in the Nation, by A. J.
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The article follows:
The famous Amsterdam Ghetto
has been condemned by the munici-
pal authorities. An interesting ac-
count of the inner life of the pic-
turesque and historic quarter re-
cently appeared in The Nation,
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An interesting exhibition was
opened recently in Amsterdam, an
exhibition showing the history,
manners, and customs of the
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Amsterdam Ghetto. It was organ-
ized by a Jewish committee who
wished to remind their non-Jewish
co-citizens of the important role
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which the Jewish population has
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played in the growth and develop-
ment of the city, now that the
Ghetto is doomed -to disappear. For
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the city council has voted for the
demolition of the old Jewish quar-
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accentuate the difference between
Christian and Jew. They stuck to-
gether voluntarily, they formed
their Ghetto themselves. But,
though free in their choice of resi-
dence, they possessed no civil rights
in the days of the RepUblic: They
were regarded as "subjects" of the
Burgomasters, not as foreigners,
liable to expulsion. The craft-
guilds were closed to them. so that
they were driven to such profes-
sions as were not organized in corp-
orations.
First among these figures the
diamond trade. It was the Portu-
guese Jews that took it up in
Amsterdam and soon excelled their
Christian competitors, Nvho in 1748
made an attempt to check their
ascendency by requesting the city
council to organize the trade in a
guild, to which Jews should have
entrance, but without a vote. But
the council refused the request and
the Jews gradually gained monop-
oly of the Amsterdam diamond
trade, which they retained until
1870. About this time the first
Cape diamonds were brought to
Amsterdam, and the rapid growth
of the import from South Africa
caused such a rise in the demand
for skilled labor that the cutters
and polishers were no longer re-
cruited from among the Jews.
From that date, Christians and
Jews were seen working side by
side in the mills, the latter forming,
at present, two-thirds of the total
of hands employed.
Thus fusion of labor was another
factor in the emancipation of the
Jew from his seclusion in the
Ghetto. A realistic picture of this
latter-day factory life is given in
"Levensgang" (Life's Way), a
Zolaistic novel by Israel Querido,
who in his early days was a dia-
mond cutter himself and a sharer
in the life and hardships of the
Ghetto and the trade.

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