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The federation is active in opposing antisemitism in the Czech Republic and supporting the State of Israel. Around 3,000 people are registered members of the federation, with around 1,400 living in Prague. Most of the 15,000 to 20,000 Jews in the Czech Republic are not affiliated with the federation or any other official Jewish organization. [1]
Úštěk Synagogue (Czech: Synagoga v Úštěku) is a former Jewish synagogue, located in the town of Úštěk, in the Litoměřice District of the Ústí nad Labem Region, in the Czech Republic. The building has served as a Jewish museum since 2014.
In addition, the Czech Republic is one of the most secularized and atheistic countries in Europe. [26] There are ten smaller Jewish communities around the country (seven in Bohemia, two in Moravia and two in Silesia. The largest one being in Prague, where close to 90% of all Czech Jews live.
Ashkenazi Jewish culture in the Czech Republic (8 P) H. Jewish Czech history (15 C, 17 P) J. Judaism in the Czech Republic (4 C, 2 P) S. Jewish schools in the Czech ...
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.
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 Klausen Synagogue (Czech: Klausová synagoga, Yiddish: קלויז שול, romanized: kloyz shul) is a former Jewish synagogue located in Prague, in the Czech Republic. The congregation was established in the 1570s, and the synagogue was completed in 1884, after an earlier synagogue, built in the early Baroque style in the Jewish ghetto, was ...
The Great Synagogue (Czech: Velká synagoga, Hebrew: בית הכנסת הגדול בפילסן) is a traditional Czech Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Plzeň, in the Czech Republic. The synagogue is the second largest synagogue in Europe [ 1 ] and fourth largest in the world [ 2 ] .