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The history of the Jews in the Czech lands, historically the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, including the modern Czech Republic (i.e. Bohemia, Moravia, and the southeast or Czech Silesia), goes back many centuries. There is evidence that Jews have lived in Moravia and Bohemia since as early as the 10th century. [5]
For the Czechs of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia, German occupation was a period of brutal oppression. The Jewish population of Bohemia and Moravia (117,551 according to the 1930 census) was virtually annihilated. Many Jews emigrated after 1939; approximately 78,000 were killed. By 1945, some 14,000 Jews remained alive in the Czech lands. [5]
The Jews of Bohemia had the highest rate of intermarriage in Europe; [14] between 1928 and 1933, 43.8 percent of Bohemian and 30 percent of Moravian Jews married a non-Jewish partner. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The high rate of integration later led to difficulties identifying Czech Jews for deportation and murder.
Jews and Judaism in Bohemia (2 C, 1 P) Jews and Judaism in Moravia (1 C, 1 P) * ... Ashkenazi Jewish culture in the Czech Republic (8 P) H. Jewish Czech history (15 C ...
This category is for Jews, or people of Jewish ethnicity, who were born or lived in what is now the Czech Republic (and used to be known as Bohemia or Bohemian Crown, including Moravia) or had close associations with the area. This is a mostly geographical term.
The Jewish Town Hall in Prague's Jewish Quarter.. The history of the Jews in Prague, the capital of today's Czech Republic, relates to one of Europe's oldest recorded and most well-known Jewish communities (in Hebrew, Kehilla), first mentioned by the Sephardi-Jewish traveller Ibrahim ibn Yaqub in 965 CE.
The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust: Life and Death in Theresienstadt Ghetto. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-51486-9. Gruner, Wolf (2019). The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78920-285-4. Hájková, Anna (2018). "Medicine in Theresienstadt" (PDF).
In 1341, King John of Bohemia allowed Jewish families to reside within the city walls. The first synagogue was built in 1380. At the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, the Jewish community had about 100 inhabitants. In 1505–1506, a pogrom occurred and the Jews were expelled from the city. [12]