Czech Jews

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Jewish community ethnoreligious group

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.

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	Auschwitz concentration camp → Terezín ghetto →
diasporaCommunity	Canada → Israel → United Kingdom → 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	Terezín →
historicalRegionOfOrigin	Bohemia → Czech Silesia → Moravia →
languageHistoricallySpoken	Czech → German → Yiddish →
majorCommunityCenter	Brno → Ostrava → Prague →
notableHistoricFigure	Franz Kafka → Hugo Bergmann NERFINISHED → Judah Loew ben Bezalel → Karel Poláček → Max Brod →
notableInstitution	Jewish Museum in Prague → 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 →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Chełmno extermination camp → Kulmhof an der Nehr →	victimGroup