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The paper is devoted to Prague Jewish legends, above all those published in the book of Prague “Sippurim“, and to the authors who collected and recorded them in literary form (G. L. Weisel, S. Kohn and others).
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The article surveys the trades and economic activities of Prague Jews before their expulsion in the year 1541.
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The article studies and analyses some 16th century Czech books dealing with Jewish history and Jews in general.
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The author deals with a Yiddish version of the “Vorhangpurim“ family megillah dating from 1623 and provides the readers with its partial translation.
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La peintre et graphique Lev Haas a ajourd’hui soixante six ans. Originaire d’Opava il a bénéficié d’une excellente érudition internationale; il étudia à l’école des arts de Musée juif d’Etat le dr. Vilém Benda et le président du comité central de l’Union des Combattants antifascistes M. Josef Hušek.
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The paper describes and analyses a medieval Hebrew manuscript traditionally reffered to as “Cheb mahzor“. The author, however, call it “Prague mahzor“. The manuscript is kept in the State Library of the C.S.R.
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The paper deals with the earliest Jewish settlement in Prague, the development of Prague Jewish population tip to the first half of the 16th century, and the administrative arrangement of the Prague Jewish Community in that period. Added to the paper are statistical tables.
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The article is devoted to the life and work of the German-Jewish poetess Gertrud Groag born in Moravia and in 1942 imprisoned in the Terezin concentration camp-ghetto. Before the war she composed lyric poems and her collection of poems analysed by the author of the paper, “Lieder einer Krankenschwester“, was written directly in Terezin. The article includes some examples of her Terezin poems.
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On November 22, 1986 the State Jewish Museum held an internal conference on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Prague Jewish Museum in 1906. The papers prepared for the conference can be found in Judaica Bohemiae, vol. XXIV. As for V. Sadek’s contribution it is only an abstract that is presented because the author drew mainly on his own papers already published in this journal. He mentioned the representatives of Prague Jewish studies whose work was closely connected with the activities of the Prague Jewish Museum before World War II (prof. dr. S. H. Lieben), during the war (dr. T. Jakobovits), and in the post-war period (dr. O. Muneles). The contribution prepared by Arno Parik dealt with the history of the pre-war Prague Jewish Museum in the years 1906—1942, while Marketa Petrášová paid attention to the collections of the war-time Central Jewish Museum in Prague and the ways the collections were treated and classified. Anita Franková informed about the exhibitions organized by the State Jewish Museum in the years 1975—1985.
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The authoress studies Sabbath spice boxes from the collections of the State Jewish Museum in Prague and classifies them from the point of view of morphology and iconography.
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The New Jewish Cemetery in Prague 3 is a protected cultural monument, notable for its organized administration by the Hevra kadisha burial society since its foundation in 1890. The cemetery’s design reflects the architectural styles of its era, with neo-Renaissance annex buildings and a ceremonial hall. It offers a chronological overview of funerary art styles from neo-Gothic to constructivism, with significant tombs along the main paths and at section corners. Despite the Nazi regime’s impact, the cemetery remains an important architectural and historical site, with notable monuments like the memorial for Czechoslovakian Jews who perished in concentration camps or fought against fascism.
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Review of: Jana Kalesná, Prehřad matrik na Slovensku do zoštátnenia matričnej agendy; Archívna správa ministerstva vnútra SSR, Bratislava 1982, 525 S. (Übersicht der Matriken in der Slowakei bis zur Verstaatlichung der Matrikenagende)
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Cette action à grande échelle, au niveau de la sauvegarde, de la restauration et conservation de l’Ancien Cimetière Juif de Prague, se poursuit sans interruptions depuis plusieurs années.
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The paper drawing on material gathered by the late dr. O. Muneles is devoted to rabbis closely connected with the Old-New Synagogue in Prague up to beginning of the 17th century.
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The paper deals with some examples of Hebrew liturgical poetry (selihoth, qinoth) containing information about the history of Jews in the Czech lands. The introduction characterizes elegies — selihoth as a literary genre. The next part of the paper analyses selihoth by Efraim Luntschitz concerning the invasion of the Passau troops into Bohemia and Prague in the year 1611. Then there are characterized selihoth by Yom Tov Lipman Heller concerning events preceding the Thirty Years’ War (the Prague defenestration of 1618 and the battle of the White Mountain in 1620). The end of the paper discusses six elegies, whose origin is closely connected with the Moravian campaign of the Swedes in the years 1642—1643 (Shimshon ben Abraham Bacharach, Moses ben Yishai Birgel and an unknown author from Kroměřiž).
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Another Jewish cemetery to be found in the region of Podorlicko, Bohemia, is that at Dobruška. The readers are provided with some basic data concerning the local Jewish settlement, then the cemetery, where a number of 17th cent, tombstones have been preserved, is described and thirty-one of its Hebrew epitaphs are published, all of them transcribed. The earliest of them is dated 1687, the latest 1873.
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No. 1 of this volume of Judaica Bohemiae contains a contribution dealing with the Jewish cemetery at Rychnov nad Kněžnou. In the region of Podorlicko there are, however, some more Jewish cemeteries. The authoress focuses her attention on the Jewish cemeteries at Vamberk and Žamberk and also on that at Skalka made famous by the writer Alois Jirasek (1851—1930), who mentions it in his novel “Temno“ (“Darkness“). All cemeteries mentioned are described, their tombstones characterized and examples of epitaphs published.
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Shemuel Shmelke Horovits was the chief representative of Hasidism in Moravia. In 1772 he became rabbi at Mikulov (Nikolsburg) and later on Moravian provincial rabbi. The paper deals with his life, works and Hasidic teachings. It contains numerous quotations from Hasidic literature concerning Shemuel Shmelke Horovits.
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