The pavement of this plein on Sunday evening in summer is almost impassable for the tables and chairs that spread over it and the crowds overflowing from Kalverstraat.
But there is still to be mentioned a district of Amsterdam which from the evening of Friday until the evening of Saturday is more populous even than Kalverstraat.

This is the Jews' quarter, which has, I should imagine, more parents and children to the square foot than any residential region in Europe.

I struggled through it at sundown one fine Saturday--to say I walked through it would be too misleading--and the impression I gathered of seething vivacity is still with me.

These people surely will inherit the earth.
Spinoza was a child of this Ghetto: his birthplace at 41 Waterloo Plein is still shown; and Rembrandt lived at No.

4 Jodenbree Straat for sixteen years.
A large number of the Amsterdam Jews are diamond cutters and polishers.