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quarter, still almost exclusively occupied by Jews, cannot be commended for its cleanliness, while the stenches engendered by the frying of foods in oil is only one whit less savoury than that of the country's canals. In the course of the centuries during which the Jews have sojourned in Amsterdam they have not acquired the Dutch netheid (neatness), but there is much life to be seen in the Joden-Bree-Straat, the principal street in the quarter, and anything and everything can be bought there, from a “genuine” Ruisdael to a rusty and dentated old razor.
The Kalverstraat—so called from the calves' market, which used to be there—formerly stretched from the Dam (as at present) to the so-called chapel (the present Kapelsteeg); it is a remarkable street. The other part of the street as it exists nowadays, running to the Spui, is only twenty-
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