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(HOLLAND). Mizmor Shir Chanukath HaBayith - Orde der Inwijding van de nieuwe synagoge, voor de Nederl. Israel. Gemeente te Arnhem Amsterdam 1853. Edited by I. Waterman. Text in Dutch and Hebrew on facing pages. With Program of the Day at end. ff. 28, (pp. 3). Few leaves dog-eared. Contemporary limp boards, detached. 8vo. Amsterdam, Coster, 1853. Consecration service for the new synagogue in Arnhem.       Arnhem is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland, where Jews have settled as early as 1237.     The first synagogue established in Arnhem was in 1756. In 1780, Jonas Daniël Meijer - who was later to play a primary role in the Emancipation of the Jews of the Netherlands - was born in Arnhem. With the arrival of Napoleonic rule late in the eighteenth century the formal emancipation of the Jews of the Netherlands finally became a fact.     As the capital of the province of Gelderland, Arnhem experienced rapid growth in the nineteenth century. The Jewish community also grew apace, causing it to require a larger house of worship. In 1853, the community opened a new synagogue Pastoorstraat at the very site of the birthplace of Jonas Daniël Meijer. The building stands to this day.