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Exhibition “Oded Ezer – The Samsa Enigma”
Until 30 September 2024 at the Jewish Museum Prague In this year marking 100 years since the death of Franz Kafka, the museum is devoting an exhibition to Israeli artist and typographer Oded ...
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Concert by the Pavel Borkovec Quartet
14 September 2023 at the Maisel synagogue This famous quartet from the Czech music scene is made up of Ondrej Has, Marek Blaha, Matej Kroupa and Stepan Drtina. That evening, they presented ...
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Jewish community of Olomouc
7 Komenskeho, 779 00 Olomouc Tel: +420 585223119 Jewish Community Olomouc
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Ostrava
The city of Ostrava is best known for its economic activity. It was one of the great coal mining regions and a major ironworks. The Jewish presence in the city was rather late, being limited by ...
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Osoblaha
Osoblaha is a Silesian village popular with contemporary tourists for its medieval buildings. The Jewish presence probably dates back to this period and was quite stable over the centuries until ...
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Olomouc
Olomouc was the capital of Moravia from the 14th to the 17th centuries and a major trading town at that time. The Jewish presence is very old and seems to date from the 11th century. Documents ...
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Kojetin
Kojetin is a Moravian town that has been known as a commercial crossroads for centuries and now hosts many cultural events. The Jewish presence in Kojetin seems to date back to at least the 13th ...
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Exhibition “To paint is to live: The Artwork of Erich Lichtblau-Leskly”
Until April 30, 2023 at the Michigan Holocaust Center The exhibition explores the life and work of Hrusov-born Erich Lichtblau-Leskly (1911-2004), a Czech Jewish artist who used art and satire as ...
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Synagogue of Brno
3, tř. Kpt. Jaroše 1922, 602 00 Brno-střed Tel : +420 544 509 622 Židovská obec Brno – Židovská obec Brno (zob.cz)
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Brno
Brno is the capital of Moravia. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 13th century, when the local authorities invited them to settle there without the discriminatory measures ...
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Austerlitz
Austerlitz, Slavkov u Brna in Czech, is a town most famous for the Napoleonic battle of 1806. The Jewish presence in Moravia is one of the oldest, with a Jewish cemetery dating from the 12th ...
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Chodova Plana
Chodova Plana is a town known as an old trade route, for its mines and brewery and the long-standing fights between nobles to rule it. The Jewish presence probably dates from the end of the 16th ...
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Synagogue of Zatec
Dlouhá 2407, 438 01 Žatec Tel : +420 732 406 166 Muzeum a kulturní prostor synagoga Žatec (synagoga-zatec.cz)