The oldest still active Jewish library in the world, Ets Haim - Livraria Montezinos in Amsterdam was founded in 1616 as a school and a library for the converso community which had come from the Iberian Peninsula to Amsterdam in the course of the sixteenth century. The school had a unique curriculum and the library now holds one of the most important Sephardic collections in the world.

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The Sephardic library Ets Haim – Livraria Montezinos in Amsterdam, is the oldest active Jewish library in the world. It holds a special position in the history of Jewish librarie…