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Open Synagogues Day

19 April 2026, from 9am to 6pm To celebrate its 120th anniversary, the Jewish Museum in Prague invites visitors to explore the Josefov district and its magnificent historic synagogues. The aim is ...

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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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Ostrava

Czech Republic › Moravia

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

Czech Republic › Moravia

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

Czech Republic › Moravia

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

Czech Republic › Moravia

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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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

Czech Republic › Moravia

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

Czech Republic › Moravia

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

Czech Republic › Bohemia

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 ...