Leeuwarden

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Includes Ameland, Dokkum, Hemelumer-Oldephaert (also inc. with Sneek), Kollumerland, Leeuwarderadeel, Oostdongeradeel, Schiermonnikoog, Westdongeradeel, Workum (also inc. with Sneek)

see Pinkas ...Nederland (Dutch) p.442 and Pinkas Hakehillot (Hebrew) p.?

1. History:
   c.1670 first congregation
   1755 special synagogue built
   1945 congregation re-established

2. Cemetery:
   1670-1786 Boterhoek
   1786-1833 Groeneweg
   1833 onwards Spanjaardslaan
   NB: All tombstones have been photographed; photographs available from Rijksarchief Friesland.

3. Personal and family names mentioned in local sources before 1813:
   Jacob Philips
   Uri Phoebus (first chazzen)
   Jacob ben Eleazar Emmerik (first rabbi)

4. Primary sources:

   1. Jewish
      • Circumcision records:
        Jozef Drogischt (Polack) 1782-1828
        Levy Jacobs de Beer 1792-1805
        -- Both included in NlSocJewGen publication #420, Friesland
      • "Sefer Zichronot" Congregation Leeuwarden (text in Yiddish)
   2. General
      • The City of Leeuwarden archives are kept at the Gemeentearchief Leeuwarden, address: Grote Kerkstraat 29, 8911 DZ Leeuwarden.
      • The "Ryksargyf Fryslan" is the provincial subsidiary of the National Archives, postal address: Postbus 97, 8900 AB Leeuwarden
   3. Sources mentioned by H. Beem (see below):
      Gemeentearchief Leeuwarden:

      Resolutieboeken
      Informatieboeken
      List of Jews living in Leeuwarden in 1738

5. Publications, see also Pinkas
   H. Beem, with J.F. van Agt, De Joden van Leeuwarden, Assen: Van Gorcum, 1974
   see also Friesland

6. Miscellaneous (pictures and objects):

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