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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 Z.C.B.J. Tolstoj Lodge No. 224, also known as Bohemian Hall or Tolstoj Sokol Lodge, [1] is a historic building in rural Linn County southeast of Scio, Oregon, United States, that was built in 1911. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 14, 1995. [2] It historically served as a meeting hall for the Czech ...
Jan Fischer (born 1951), prime minister of the Czech Republic (2009) [64] Bruno Kafka (1881–1931), German-speaking Jewish Czech politician, leader from 1918 to his death of the Czechoslovak German Democratic Liberal Party, member of the National Assembly; Ignaz Kuranda, politician [65]
This is a list of municipalities of the Czech Republic which have status of a city, town or market town granted by law. As of 2024, there are 27 cities, 583 towns and 232 market towns in the Czech Republic. The population is shown in brackets and is current to 1 January 2024. [1]
Beroun, named by Czech immigrants from Beroun, Czech Republic. Bohemian Flats, a former residential area of Minneapolis that was settled by Czechoslovakian and other European immigrants. Litomysl, named after Litomyšl, Czech Republic. New Prague, named by Czech immigrants after Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
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.
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 ...