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The history of the Jewish community can be observed by a trail through the old Jewish quarter. The synagogue, originally built in the 16th century and rebuilt as Baroque after a 1719 fire, is the only preserved synagogue in Moravia of the so-called Polish type. [22] It houses an exposition on Rabbi Loew and Jewish education in Moravia. The ...
Mikulov Castle (German: Nikolsburg) is a castle in the town of Mikulov in South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. The castle is on a site of historic Slavonic settlement, where the original stone castle was erected at the end of the 13th century. The end of World War II saw the castle destroyed by a fire whose origins are unclear. [1]
Nikolsburg (Yiddish: ניקאלשפורג) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty descending from Shmelke of Nikolsburg, a disciple of Dov Ber of Mezeritch. From 1773 to 1778 he was the Chief Rabbi of Moravia , in the city of Nikolsburg , today Mikulov, Czech Republic, from which the dynasty gets its name.
Joel Deutsch was born in Nikolsburg, Moravia.He was a close student of rabbinical literature and an energetic collector of Hebrew books.In 1844, he became a teacher at the Allgemeine österreichische israelitische Taubstummen-Institut in Nikolsburg, a school for deaf Jewish children established that year by philanthropist Hirsch Kolisch at the suggestion of Catholic priest Dr. Franz Herrmann ...
There was a large and thriving community of Jews, both religious and secular, in Czechoslovakia before World War II. Many perished during the Holocaust. Today, nearly all of the survivors have inter-married and assimilated into Czech and Slovak society.
Outside Italy, the Pious schools expanded into Central Europe. Cardinal Dietrichstein invited the Pious Schools to come to Moravia, which is now part of the Czech Republic. On 2 April 1631, the Laurentine School was opened in Nikolsburg with eight teachers and nine students. Within a week the number of students increased to sixteen, and within ...
His body was buried temporarily at Lichtenstadt, near Carlsbad, but seven months later was permanently interred at Nikolsburg in accordance with his will. The communities of Lichtenstadt and Nikolsburg contended for the honor of interring his mortal remains, and the dispute which later arose over the exhumation of the body was fought with the ...
The community finally went into turmoil after Reb Shmelke criticized and disallowed the Haskalah which had become relatively popular in Nikolsburg. Prominent community members suggested that Reb Shmelke return to Poland, as he was unfit for a modern and secularized community such as Nikolsburg.