The new podcast series The Jewish City, in Dutch, is about the long Jewish history of Amsterdam Center.
Listeners are taken along the Uilenburg and Vluivenburg districts (the current Waterlooplein area). The podcast is full of interesting and often unknown stories about Amsterdam Center.
Amsterdam city center
Each episode covers themes such as language and literature, art, the market, poverty, religion and Jewish (neighborhood) life in conversation with 2 to 3 guests. Guests include Bart Wallet (professor of Jewish history), Duifje van de Woestijne (local resident), Maarten Hell (historian), Daniella Zaidman Mauer (Yiddish teacher at the UvA), Emile Schrijver (professor and director of the Jewish Cultural Quarter), Rob de Spa (local resident and historian), Lotte Terwel (daily manager of the Center District), and the market traders of Waterlooplein. Historian Julia van der Krieke made the podcast together with Caspar Stalenhoef.
Project
The Jewish City
The podcast series is a collaboration project between the Jewish Cultural Quarter, the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam and the municipality of Amsterdam. It is part of the larger project The Jewish City, which arose from the ‘Aanpak Binnenstad’ and aims to introduce Amsterdam residents to the long Jewish history of their city and neighborhood.
Listen now
The podcast can be listened to in your own podcast app (including Spotify) or via this link. A new episode comes online every week. The first episodes are about the Vluizenburg and Uilenburg districts, followed from the summer by Rapenburg and the Plantage.
More information about the project can be found here.