Summary: The Portuguese Synagoge, or Snoge, was the largest Sephardi synagogue in the world when it was built, between 1671 and 1675. The fact that Amsterdam's Sephardim were permitted to erect this grand structure attests to the relative freedom of Jews in this part of Western Europe, at a time when Jews elsewhere were confined to ghettos and subject to restrictions. Through the centuries, foreign tourist have been amazed by the beauty and scale of the complex. The present volume examines many aspects of this glorious synagogue, which has been preserverd almost perfectly in its seventeenth-century state.

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