Manegestraat is a small side street of the Nieuwe Kerkstraat (between the Nieuwe Kerkstraat and the Nieuwe Prinsengracht) and where today is, among other things, the music school, there was between 1761 and 1888 the “Fransche Manege” (French Riding School). The horses of circus Carré were also stabled there for many years on the open terrain that once existed.
Manegestraat, as a side street of the all the way Jewish Nieuwe Kerkstraat, was very Jewish. The name of this street often comes up in the stories about Jewish Amsterdam. In this part of the Nieuwe Kerkstraat it were "Russian" (Eastern European) Jews who fled (to America) after the pogroms in Eastern Europe and on the way stayed in Amsterdam, and we still find their descendants there.
The population of this street was so often of Eastern European descent, that the nickname for Manegestraat has been Russenstraatje (Russian street) for many years. However, it was not always peace and quiet between the Dutch Jews and the Eastern European Jews. Dutch Jewish children often smashed the windows and the Eastern European Jews were shouted after with: "dirty stinky Russians, go back to your country".
The houses in the Manegestraat were built around 1890, the architect was C.A. Bombach.
Source: website: http://www.joodsamsterdam.nl/manegestraat-russenstraatje/ (only dutch language)