History of the Jews in the Czech lands

Czech Jews, Bohemian Jews, Moravian Jews
Židé v Českých zemích
Juden der böhmischen Länder
(יהדות בוהמיה (צ'כיה
בעמישע יידן
Jews taking snuff in Prague, painting by Mírohorský, 1885
Total population
2,349[1]
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Czech, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Judeo-Czech
Religion
Judaism, Frankism, Jewish Brotherhoods
Related ethnic groups
Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, Slovak Jews, Austrian Jews, German Jews, Hungarian Jews, Ukrainian Jews
Historical local Jewish population
YearPop.±%
192135,699—    
193037,093+3.9%
1991218−99.4%
2011521+139.0%
20212,349+350.9%
Source: [2][3][4]

The history of the Jews in the Czech lands, historically the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, including the modern Czech Republic (i.e. Bohemia, Moravia, and the southeast or Czech Silesia), goes back many centuries. There is evidence that Jews have lived in Moravia and Bohemia since as early as the 10th century.[5] Jewish communities flourished here specifically in the 16th and 17th centuries, and again in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Local Jews were mostly murdered in the Holocaust, or exiled at various points. As of 2021, there were only about 2,300 Jews estimated to be living in the Czech Republic.

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  3. ^ "YIVO | Population and Migration: Population since World War I". Yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-09. Retrieved 2012-03-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "The Jews of the Czech Republic". The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot. Archived from the original on 2018-06-24. Retrieved 2018-06-24.