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Are you a Jewish student in Leiden? A tourist?

Want to know where to get Kosher food?

Get all the relevant information here at the Jewish Leiden Kosher Visitor Directory

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8 Nov 2024 : Due to unrest in Amsterdam
Warning: Please check travel advice with the relevant
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:לוח מידע למטייל
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Leiden’s Jewish
History
in-a-nutshell

Leiden has one of the oldest synagogues in the Netherlands. There was also a Talmud Torah (Boys Torah School) that was destroyed in the Leiden Gunpowder disaster on 12 Jan 1807.

In its aftermath Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, ruler over the Netherlands (on behalf of the French) decided to build a University in the city. The University of Leiden was the second to open its gates for Jews. The 1st European University to accept Jews was that of Padua, Italy.

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Kashrus Lists

The Netherlands has 2 online Kashrus resources with
products sold in supermarket branches throughout
the country – click NIK Kashrus List or Chabad A’dam
to see the respective websites.

for Nik Kashrus List click here

for Chabad Amsterdam click here

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Ordering Food:

A variety of kosher food can be ordered at:

Kosher4u.eu

in Antwerps, with delivery service 
to all parts of the Netherlands.
For questions about deliveries etc.
see: https://www.kosher4u.eu/faq

For all other inquiries
contact Costumer Service
at: +32-32087000

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About Kosher food in general:
Kosher restaurants are to be found
in several neighbourhoods in the
City of Amsterdam. Food can be
purchased in Kosher stores in
Amsterdam in person or ordered
by mail from Amsterdam or Antwerps.

Delivery costs can be cheaper
than travel to store destination,
even by public transportation.

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Sight Seeing in Leiden

The Leiden Synagogue is one of the oldest in
the Netherlands – for anything that has to do with
the synagogue one has to contact them by email.

Contact information:
info@joodsleiden.nl

Official Website:
https://www.joodsleiden.nl/nig-leiden-en/

The Beis HaChaim (Cemetery) of Jewish Community
is located at Rijnstraat 151, Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands.

For a database with search function/ (partial) list of names
of the deceased in the Leiden Jewish graveyard (Katwijk) see:
https://www.stenenarchief.nl/
hsa_all/hsa_list.php?q=(cemetery~
equals~Leiden%20(Katwijk))

Directions to Jewish Cemetery in Katwijk on Waze:
https://www.waze.com/en-GB/live-map/
directions/joodse-begraafplaats
-rijnstraat-151-katwijk-zh?to=
place.w.2884106.28972132.7070702

– Note: this website in no way represents
the community and shouldn’t be contacted to
reach the Jewish Community of Leiden.

Lakenhal
De Lakenhal is a museum where the Community
of Leiden stored (in secret) it’s Sifrei Torah during
WWII. They have had publications on WWII and
the Jews in Leiden.

Address:
Oude Singel 32, 2312 RA
Leiden, Netherlands

https://www.lakenhal.nl/en


Machseh LaJesoumim
Building of former Jewish orphan’s home
(not open to public) which was before WWII
an orphan’s home and had afterwards
(from 1948 to 1951) a Yeshiva with a group
of students from Hajdúnánás headed by
Rabbi Jona Glauber.

* Note:
unless otherwise
arranged one can
only see this location
from the outside.

Address:
Roodenburgerstraat 1A,
2313 HH Leiden, Netherlands

Reading material:
https://herdenkingleiden.nl/weeshuis/


WWII Luggage Monuments
On various location in Leiden, scattered on the streets
of the city there are monuments of the Holocaust that
resemble pieces of luggage.

For locations see:
https://www.komoot.com/nl-nl/collection/1354221/-leiden-
bagage-jewish-memorial-leiden-bagage-joods-monument


National Museum
of Antiquities

Address:
Rapenburg 28,
2311 EW Leiden,
Netherlands

Website:
https://www.rmo.nl/

Ancient Egypt Exposition
Now besides that National Museum of Antiquities has a permanent exposition about Ancient Egypt, legend has it the museum has the remainders of Pharaoh himself (according to some Historians, not in pyjama’s in the middle of the night but
a big smaller than one would expect).

Old Jewish Cemetery of Leiden
Around the windmill De Valk is where the Old Jewish Cemetery was -last stones we’re still there not long ago (there might still be some). Molen De Valk is a museum and landmark in general. The Jewish cemetery was moved to Katwijk in 1758.
See Beis HaChaim (Cemetery) above.

The cemetery spread out on the areas around: Molen de Valk, Lammermarkt, Kiekpad and this area is forbidden according to Jewish Law for Cohanim.


Molen De Valk
Museum

Address: 
Molenwerf 1,
2312 CH Leiden,
Netherlands

Website:
molenmuseumdevalk.nl


De Burcht (fortification)
* Note: this is not a museum but
an outside historic landmark,
no opening-times entrance fee etc.

Address:
Van der Sterrepad 5,
2312 EK Leiden,
Netherlands

Directions with Waze:
https://www.waze.com/en-GB/
live-map/directions/nl/zh/
leiden/burcht-van-leiden?
to=place.ChIJe1IhlUhCxk
cRCUeFxC-F9Ak


Rembrandt Square
* Note: this is not a museum but an outside historic
landmark, no opening-times entrance fee etc. 

Address:
Weddesteeg 29,
2311 VX Leiden,
Netherlands

Website:
https://rembrandtplaats.com/


Hortus Botanicus
Botanical Gardens

Address:
Rapenburg 73,
2311 GJ Leiden,
Netherlands

Website:
hortusleiden.nl