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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]
Over time, many Jews in Bohemia switched to Czech, which was the majority by the 1910 census, but German remained preferred by Jews living in Moravia and Czech Silesia. [4] Following the end of World War I in 1918, Bohemia and Moravia – including the border Sudetenland , which had an ethnic-German majority – became part of the new country ...
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.
Moravia [a] (Czech: Morava ⓘ; German: Mähren [ˈmɛːʁən] ⓘ) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
During World War II, Czechoslovakia was divided into four different regions, each administered by a different authority: Sudetenland (Germany), Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Slovak State, and Carpathian Ruthenia and southern Slovakia (Hungary). As a result, the Holocaust unfolded differently in each of these areas:
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.