Czech Jews

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Czech Jews are members of the Jewish community originating from the historical lands of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia, whose rich cultural and religious life was largely destroyed during the Holocaust.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Czech Jews canonical 2
Kafka family in early 20th-century Prague 1

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish community
ethnoreligious group
countryOfOrigin Czech Republic
culturalContribution Hebrew and Jewish printing in Prague
Jewish literature in Czech and German
Jewish music and liturgy
Jewish religious scholarship
culturalTradition Ashkenazi liturgical customs
Central European Jewish culture
currentCommunityOrganization Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic
deportedTo AuschwitzBirkenau
surface form: Auschwitz concentration camp

Theresienstadt concentration camp
surface form: Terezín ghetto
diasporaCommunity Canada
Israel
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
experiencedEvent communist-era restrictions on religious life
emancipation in the 19th century
heritageSite Jewish Quarter (Josefov) in Prague
Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague
historicalEvent Holocaust
historicalPopulationCenter Theresienstadt concentration camp
surface form: Terezín
historicalRegionOfOrigin Bohemia
Austrian Silesia
surface form: Czech Silesia

Moravia
languageHistoricallySpoken Czech
German
Yiddish
majorCommunityCenter Brno
Ostrava
Prague
notableHistoricFigure Franz Kafka
Hugo Bergmann
Judah Loew ben Bezalel
Karel Poláček
Max Brod
notableInstitution Jewish Museum in Prague
Theresienstadt concentration camp
surface form: Terezín Ghetto Museum
notableSynagogue Jerusalem Synagogue in Prague
Old New Synagogue in Prague
Spanish Synagogue in Prague
partOf Ashkenazi Jews
persecutionBy Nazi Germany
postHolocaustPopulationDecline majority of prewar community murdered
preWorldWarIIPopulationEstimate approximately 118000
religion Judaism
religiousDenomination Conservative Judaism
Orthodox Judaism
Reform Judaism
sufferedMassMurderIn Holocaust

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chelmno victimGroup Czech Jews
subject surface form: Chełmno extermination camp
Kulmhof an der Nehr victimGroup Czech Jews
Gabriele Kafka partOf Czech Jews
this entity surface form: Kafka family in early 20th-century Prague