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Prague

Czech Republic, Land of Stories – is the slogan used by the Czech tourism board. British online newspaper Jewish News (jewishnews.co.uk) has checked out the Jewish history in Prague and the rest of the Czech Republic.

For the most part, Jews here prospered from their arrival in 995, right up until the end of the 19th century.

But rising anti-Semitism and the Second World War all but eradicated what was one of the largest and most vibrant Jewish communities in the world. From a high point of 153 Jewish communities in the 1930s, the Czech Republic is now home to just 10.

Jewish News first stop was in the capital, Prague, which nowadays has no more than 1,800 Jews. Once home to a thriving Jewish Quarter, all that remains is the town hall, six synagogues and the Old Jewish Cemetery, in which can be seen 12,000 tombstones.

Preserving the buildings, the artefacts inside them, and promotion of the area is down to the city’s Jewish Museum.

Housing around 100,000 books and tens of thousands of photographs and documents, it depicts the city’s once rich and prosperous Jewish life.

Read the whole article at www.jewishnews.co.uk/czech-it-out-discovering-hundreds-of-years-of-jewish-history 

Source: www.jewishnews.co.uk

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