Sneek

Includes Hemelumer-Oldephaert and Workum (both also inc. with Leeuwarden)

See Pinkas ...Nederland (Dutch) p.524 and Pinkas Hakehillot (Hebrew) p.372

  1. History:
    1817 first congregation
    1819 first synagogue
    1945 congregation not re-established after the end of WW II
    1949 last synagogue pulled down: furniture went to Kfar Batja, Israel

  2. Cemetery:
    Initial burials in Leeuwarden Seven burials (1897-1903) at Algemene Begraafplaats Sneek (Municipal Cemetery)
    Jewish cemetery Sneek 1823-1964: 96 burials; data in Rijksarchief Friesland, Burgemeester De Hooppark, Leeuwarden (see our archives page),
    NB: All tombstones have been photographed; photographs available from Rijksarchief Friesland.

  3. Personal and family names

    1. Personal and family names mentioned in local sources before 1813:
      Jacob Samuels 1749 [Quotisatiekohier (taxation register) 1749]
      Herman Cohen 1749 [Quotisatiekohier (taxation register) 1749]
      Joseph Levy 1750
      Hartog Joseph 1771
      Benedictus Jacob 1779
      Abraham Marcus 1782
      Salomon LEIDERSDORFF 1798
      Levy Salomon LEIDERSDORFF 1799
      Michael Isaacs 1800
      Aron David VAN GELDEREN 1800
      Moses BROEKHUIJSEN 1811
      Fiktor Philips 1812 The Register of Family Names 1811-1812 contains only one family for Sneek; that of Moses BROEKHUIJSEN.

    2. Early Sneek families
      Broekhuijsen, Brook , Frijda, Liefmans, Rubens, Tal, van Wijhe

  4. Primary sources:

    1. Jewish

    2. General
      The City of Sneek archives (before 1813) are kept at the Town Hall. They include Council Minute Books, Conscription records, Burgerboek (Register of Citizens) 1513-1803 (copy in RA Friesland, inv nos 6108-6105)

    3. Sources mentioned by H. Beem (see below):
      in City Archives:
      Algemene zaken
      Kohier van de lantaarngelden
      Quotisatiekohier
      Rekeningenboek ontvangsten
      Sneeker Courant
      Sneker Gasthuis
      Speciekohier belastingen
      Stadswaagboek
      Uitgaven spin- en werkhuis

  5. Publications, see also Pinkas
    H. Beem, De Joodse Gemeente te Sneek, Bolsward 1973
    see also Friesland

  6. Miscellaneous (pictures and objects):
    • Silver Havdala plate donated to Sneek synagogue by Chaim SANDERS and his wife Judith FRIJDA in 1880 (Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam #2633); picture in Irene Faber and Siem van der Woude, Drie Eeuwen Joods Leven in Friesland, exhibition catalogue, Ryksargyf Leeuwarden 1995, p.28.
    • Foundation stone of synagogue 1835, bearing the names of Aron Joseph FRIJDA, Joachim (Chaim) SANDERS, and ..., kept in Town Hall, Sneek..

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