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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/157006907X195721 Quærendo 37 (2007) 111-146 www.brill.nl/qua Th e Book Trade in the Poort Jurjen Vis Amsterdam, Th e Netherlands Abstract After a general introduction on Jews in the book trade by Dr Adri K. Off enberg, a brief history is given of the original eighteen arched shop stalls in the passageway of the Oudemanhuispoort [the Old Men’s Home Gate] in the centre of Amsterdam, where luxury articles were sold from 1757 to 1831. In that year the city council took over the management of the shopping arcade from the Regents of the Old Men’s Home, and other uses for the stalls were found. In 1876 the city council relocated Amsterdam’s daily book market from the Botermarkt (today’s Rembrandtplein) to the Poort (the local abbreviation of Oudemanhuispoort), in the neighbourhood of the prem- ises used by the newly founded University of Amsterdam. From this period until the 1990s the history of the predominantly Jewish booksellers who leased the stalls is dealt with. Particular attention is given to the families Lobo and De Wolff , Boekman, Van Kollem and Mossel, Blok, Kokernoot, Emmering, Frank and Pfann; many of these expanded their businesses into
Quaerendo – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2007
Keywords: AMSTERDAM; BOOK MARKET; JEWS IN THE BOOK TRADE; BOOK STALLS; JEWISH BOOKSELLERS
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