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There was a large and thriving community of Jews, both religious and secular, in Czechoslovakia before World War II. Many perished during the Holocaust. Today, nearly all of the survivors have inter-married and assimilated into Czech and Slovak society.

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Salomon Weisz, Cantor & Bar Mitzvah teacher in Znojmo and Trebic, Cantor of Moravia & Bar Mitzvah teacher in Prague from 1946 to 1968.

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References

Footnotes

  1. ^ Review of his book, The Cosmic Book: On the Mechanics of Creation Biblio.com booksellers calls him "a Jewish scientist and inventor, who was born in Prague". Retrieved 20 October 2006. Actually born in Humenné.
  2. ^ "Yehuda Bauer, Historian of the Holocaust". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from ADL website the original on 2 December 2006. Retrieved 9 February 2006. ((cite web)): Check |url= value (help)
  3. ^ Jewish Agency for Israel Archived 1 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine; The Hugo Bergmann family Papers; both accessed 11 March 2007
  4. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".
  5. ^ "Flusserstudies.net". Archived from the original on 13 July 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2006. "Vilém Flusser was born on 12 May 1920 in Prague into a family of Jewish intellectuals"
  6. ^ Obituary, by John Davis, Warden of All Souls College London School of Economics Archived 14 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine, "Ernest Gellner, who has died a few days short of his 70th birthday, was brought up in Prague, in an urban intellectual Jewish family." Accessed 10 November 2006.
  7. ^ (Jewish Year Book 2005 p215, in List of Jewish Fellows of the British Academy; born Czechoslovakia; see Who's Who)
  8. ^ List of Jewish philosophers; born in Prague Biography Research Guide 10 March 2008
  9. ^ Encyclopedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".
  10. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Nikolai Dmetrievich Brashman", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  11. ^ "GANS, DAVID BEN SOLOMON BEN SELIGMAN - JewishEncyclopedia.com". jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  12. ^ Cook, Mariana (2009). Mathematicians an outer view of the inner world (Online-Ausg. ed.). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-1400832880.
  13. ^ Lorentz, G. G. (2002). "Mathematics and Politics in the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953" (PDF). Journal of Approximation Theory. 116 (2): 185. doi:10.1006/jath.2002.3670.
  14. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Charles Loewner", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  15. ^ "Jewish Recipients of the Bôcher Memorial Prize". Jinfo.org. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  16. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alfred Tauber", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  17. ^ "The Return of Women of Mathematics (Olga Taussky-Todd)". Archived from the original on 13 January 1998. Retrieved 29 July 2006. "Political tensions arose around this time, and like many other Jewish intellectuals, she left Germany"
  18. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed., art. "Koller, Carl": "born in Bohemia"
  19. ^ Ruth Linn (13 April 2006). "Obituary: Rudolf Vrba | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  20. ^ "Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori". Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  21. ^ http://www.nndb.com/people/452/000044320/ : "Birthplace: Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia ... Religion: Jewish" accessed 8 February 2007
  22. ^ "Year of Jewish Culture - 100 Years of the Jewish Museum in Prague". Archived from the original on 19 July 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2006. Noted in "Prague Jewish Architecture"
  23. ^ Web biographies that indicate Forman's father, who died in a concentration camp, was Jewish are incorrect. Neither one of his parents was Jewish. However, according to [1], Forman's biological father was Jewish, something he found out only after WWII: "About this time Miloš received word from a woman who befriended Anna in Auschwitz. What she had to say would come as quite a shock. It seems Rudolf was in fact not Miloš's father and that his real father was an architect who had worked for Anna. He too disappeared before the war but was Jewish thereby making Miloš half Jewish. Miloš would learn that this man was in fact alive and a professor at a university in Ecuador. They would never meet."
  24. ^ Kronfeld, Martin (2012). "Židia". In Myrtil Nagy (ed.). Naše národnostné menšiny. Šamorín: Fórum inštitút pre výskum menšín. p. 23. ISBN 978-80-89249-57-2.
  25. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed, art. "Goldflam, Arnošt": "Czech playwright, writer, director, screenwriter, and actor. Born to Holocaust survivors in Brno (Moravia)"
  26. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed, art. "Haas, Hugo": "Czechoslovak actor and film director"
  27. ^ International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies – Cemetery Project Archived 26 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine: he is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Znojmo, Czech Republic; accessed 18 May 2007
  28. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed, art. "Lederer, Francis": "Czech actor"
  29. ^ Martin Harry Greenberg (November 1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and ... Schocken Books. ISBN 9780805237115. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  30. ^ "Robert Maxwell: Overview". Ketupa.net. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  31. ^ "Newsletter 2003/3". Archived from the original on 8 February 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2006. "important Jewish graphic artist and painter, Emil Orlik"
  32. ^ http://www.ce-review.org/01/20/kinoeye20_cieslar.html Archived 12 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine described Radok as "half Jewish"
  33. ^ http://www.radio.cz/en/article/34974 "Reisz arrived in Britain in 1939 as one of more than 600 Jewish children, who escaped the horrific fate of their parents thanks to Sir Nicholas Winton, who arranged for them to escape Czechoslovakia"
  34. ^ "Jan Saudek". Archived from the original on 24 August 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2006. "in spite of the fact that due to his wartime experience as an enduring Jewish child"
  35. ^ "Stern Gallery - Essay on Jewish and Israeli Art". Archived from the original on 14 August 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2006. noted in an essay on "Jewish artists"
  36. ^ Hoberman, J. "Cinema." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe 2 August 2010. 18 October 2012 <http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Cinema>.
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  38. ^ "A Jewish Athlete". Mehrpatrick1.web.officelive.com. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  39. ^ "NEWSLETTER 2004/3". Jewishmuseum.cz. Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  40. ^ Canadian Encyclopedia, art. Jewish music and musicians "Post-war Jewish immigration has related less to persecution than to professional appointments or opportunities (e.g., Karel Ančerl" Accessed 23 October 2006.
  41. ^ The concentration camp for Jews – the Terezín Ghetto Archived 1 March 2005 at the Wayback Machine lists Berman as among the Jews sent there; Accessed 3 November 2006
    Jewish Theological Seminary Archived 27 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine: "Czech opera star Karel Berman" Accessed 3 November 2006
  42. ^ Jewish: "Contemporary Review, June 1999 by Anthony Paterson" "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 April 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2006.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "the Nazi ban on his compositions – he was Jewish" Accessed 6 November 2006.
    born Moravia: "Composers of Classical Music" [2] "Brull, Ignaz 1846–1907 Moravia, Prossnitz – Austria, Vienna" Accessed 6 November 2006.
  43. ^ Uwe Scholz. "Projekt Shalom CJD Chemnitz - Arthur Chitz". www.juden-in-mittelsachsen.de (in German). Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  44. ^ ORT, The World. "Music and the Holocaust". holocaustmusic.ort.org. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  45. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia; "born at Prague" Accessed 28 November 2006.
  46. ^ "Classical Composers Database" [3] "Born: 21 June 1899, Brno (Czechoslovakia) ... Being Jewish, at the time of the Nazi invasion he divorced his Christian wife to save his family" Accessed 6 November 2006.
  47. ^ Avins, Styra "Brahms and the German Spirit (review)" Music and Letters – Volume 87, Number 1, 2006, pp. 136–141 online at [4] or [5] "three other Jews, Julius Epstein, Anton Door, and Eduard Hanslick" (Needs subscription, but found with this search: [6] Accessed 6 November 2006.)
    Born in Prague: Encyclopædia Britannica Accessed 6 November 2006.
  48. ^ a b Czech Jewish Museum Archived 3 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine "The life and work of the Czech Jewish composers Gideon Klein and Egon Ledeč" Accessed 10 November 2006.
  49. ^ The Gideon Klein Foundation "The Gideon Klein Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by Eliška Kleinová, Gideon Klein’s sister" Accessed 15 June 2007.
  50. ^ Korngold Society Archived 9 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine: "he got thrown out of Vienna because he was Jewish" Jessica Duchen, author of E. Korngold's biography); Korngold Society: "BRNO, where the composer was born"; accessed 6 February 2007.
  51. ^ Berkeley Repertory Theater "Krása, who was Jewish" Accessed 23 November 2006
  52. ^ Minnesota Public Radio "Krása was a gifted Czech composer" Accessed 23 November 2006
  53. ^ Biography for Gustav Mahler at IMDb. Retrieved 28 November 2006. "Mahler's Jewish faith stood in the way of his career goal"
  54. ^ Sony Essentials of Music Archived 15 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine "Czech-born Austrian composer and conductor" Accessed 28 November 2006.
  55. ^ Art. on Moscheles in Encyclopædia Britannica "Czech pianist, one of the outstanding virtuosos of his era"; Art. on Moscheles in Columbia Encyclopedia[permanent dead link] "Prague -born Jewish virtuoso Ignaz Moscheles" Both accessed 29 November 2006.
  56. ^ Radio Praha "She was born in Pilsen in 1927 into an upper class Jewish family"; Goldberg the early-music portal Archived 5 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine "France honours Czech harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova" Both accessed 29 November 2006.
  57. ^ School of Oriental and African Studies, Newsletter of the Jewish Music Institute Archived 22 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine "Erwin Schulhoff, a Czech Jew executed by the Nazis..." Accessed 8 December 2006.
  58. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, 2nd ed., art. "Schulhoff, Julius": "Born in Prague"
  59. ^ Bach cantatas site "The distinguished Czech-born English conductor" Lake Placid Film Forum Archived 23 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine "Walter Susskind, a German Jew" Both accessed 4 January 2007
  60. ^ "Terezin". Archived from the original on 8 September 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2006. "Raised a German-Czech until a 1909 move to Austria" "Viktor Ullmann - Czech Contemporary Composer". Archived from the original on 3 August 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2006. "Viktor Ullmann, composer, pianist, choirmaster, conductor and music critic, was one of the victims from among the Prague German Jewish musicians in World War II."
  61. ^ http://www.porges.net/JewishHistoryOfCzechRepub.html noted as one of "Jews prominent in music"
  62. ^ Encyclopedia of Austria born Prague. Retrieved 20 March 2008; "Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century" by Andrew R. Heinze; Published 2004 Princeton University Press ISBN 0-691-11755-1, p.69 (includes him in list of notable Jews in Vienna)
  63. ^ "Irwin N. Graulich: The Beauty of Madeleine Albright". Archived from the original on 19 June 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2006. "When born Jews like Madeleine Albright leave Judaism to participate in new secular religions a la Karl Marx with Marxism" [7] "The Washington Post reported 4 February that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's parents were Jewish converts to Catholicism and that her grandparents died in the Holocaust."
  64. ^ 15. dubna 2009 (15 April 2009). "Manžel tak nevypadá, ale je vtipný, říká žena nového premiéra". Ona.idnes.cz. Retrieved 8 November 2011.((cite web)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  65. ^ "KURANDA, IGNAZ". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 20 March 2008.‹The template SemiBareRefNeedsTitle is being considered for deletion.› 
  66. ^ "Jewhoo! - "News & Notes"". Archived from the original on 12 May 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2006. "The film tells the story of Artur London, a Czech Jewish communist who survived Nazi concentration camps"
  67. ^ http://www.margolius.co.uk "Articles and books about the life of Rudolf Margolius and his international economic agreements."
  68. ^ http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/eng_captions/62-4.html "The Czech Jewish party leader Rudolf Slansky"
  69. ^ Jewish News Weekly Michael Zantovsky, a leading Czech political figure who is of Jewish background"; Accessed 5 February 2007
  70. ^ Jewish News Weekly of Northern California "A chance meeting 13 years ago changed the course of Rabbi Samuel Abramson's life... He left his homeland, Czechoslovakia, in 1988" Accessed 8 December 2006.
  71. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia, "Rabbi and scholar of varied attainments; born 16 March 1843, at Neu-Raussnitz, Moravia" Accessed 10 November 2006.
  72. ^ "Historical survey of Jewish settlement in Brno", Centropa Quarterly, Summer 2006 Archived 27 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine, "Rabbi Israel ben Chajim, also known as Israel Bruna (born in Brno early 15th century, died after 1475) was the first important Hebrew scholar in the Czech lands." Accessed 30 October 2006.
  73. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia "rabbi; born at Weisskirchen, Moravia" Accessed 7 November 2006.
  74. ^ "Joseph Herman Hertz 1872-1946". Archived from the original on 30 November 2006. Retrieved 31 August 2006. "Joseph Herman Hertz was born in Slovakia in 1872"
  75. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia: [8] Bohemian; [9] tosafist
  76. ^ Chabad.org Jewish History "Rabbi Judah ben Bezalel Lowe was born about the year 5285, probably in Posen. He became famous as a great Talmudic scholar at an early age. In his late twenties, he was invited to become the Rabbi in Nikolsburg, Moravia, a position which he held for about twenty years. His greatest fame, however, came to him as the spiritual head of the Jewish community in Prague" Accessed 22 May 2007.
  77. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia: "born at Prague 1528; died there 13 March 1601. The persecution of the Jews of Prague by the fanatical Ferdinand I. occurred while Mordecai was a youth. In 1542 and 1561 his family, with the other Jewish inhabitants, was forced to leave the city" Accessed 22 May 2007.
  78. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed., art. "Blowitz, Henri
  79. ^ http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9016573 "Czech-born, German-language novelist" "Commentary Magazine - Paganism-Christianity-Judaism, by Max Brod". Archived from the original on 18 October 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2006. "Brod was a Czech Jew, or more precisely a Prague Jew, and a member of the famous Prager Kreis-that is to say, a Jew inhabiting a special cultural enclave"
  80. ^ "Petr Brod (1951)". www.memoryofnations.eu. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  81. ^ "All About Jewish Theatre – The Court – Jesters in Jerusalem". Jewish-theatre.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  82. ^ "Egon Hostovsky". Archived from the original on 9 February 2006. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
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  84. ^ "KAFKA, FRANZ (1883–1924): Czech author.": The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia (fifth ed, 1977, ed. Geoffrey Wigoder), p. 1101.
  85. ^ http://classiclit.about.com/od/kafkafranz/Kafka_Franz.htm Archived 28 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine "Czech writer"
  86. ^ "The Jewish cemeteries of Prague" (in French). Porges.net. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  87. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/klima_transcript.shtml Archived 18 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine "You might say that the Czech novelist, Ivan Klima, has been the victim of the famous Chinese curse, 'may you live in interesting times'. Born in 1931 he was a boy when Czech independence was in effect handed over to Nazi Germany in 1938. As a Jew he and his family were interned in the Terezinstadt Concentration Camp during the Second World War"
  88. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia, "born at Münchengrätz, Bohemia" Accessed 8 December 2006.
  89. ^ Included in Clive James's book Cultural Amnesia.
  90. ^ "Margolius Family Website". Margolius Family Website. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  91. ^ "1". Archived from the original on 19 December 2005. Retrieved 29 July 2006. "Lustig was one of the few out of fifteen thousand Jewish children"
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  94. ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/06/11/do1107.xml[dead link] "At 68, he is still discovering himself. When he was a boy, his mother drew a veil over the family's past. There had been a Jewish grandmother, she said, and this was why they had to leave Czechoslovakia. Only relatively recently did he learn the full story. His whole family was Jewish. Most of his relatives had been murdered in the death camps. His father, once the house doctor at the Bata shoe factory in Zlin, had been killed in a Japanese air raid."
  95. ^ "Hermann Ungar". Archived from the original on 2 July 2007. Retrieved 24 June 2007. "Hermann Ungar was born on 20 April 1893 to a comfortable Jewish family in the small Moravian town of Boskovice, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Formerly the Jewish ghetto, the Jewish Town of Boskovice had the unusual distinction of having been established as its own municipality in 1848 (one of only two such instances, this status lasted until 1919) after the Habsburg's emancipation of the Jews in the Czech Lands... Ungar grew up speaking German and Czech..."
  96. ^ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Mendelssohn2.html "Jiri Weil, a Czech Jewish writer"
  97. ^ Feuchtwanger memorial Library Archived 28 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine: "The Czech-born, Austrian-Jewish writer Franz Werfel" accessed 27 March 08
  98. ^ "New exhibition in the Maisel Synagogue in Prague". Archived from the original on 13 June 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2006. "This provides an overview of the history of the Jews in the Czech Lands... Jacob Bassevi, the first Jew to be raised to the nobility"
  99. ^ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807531480 "The Bradys were Jewish. They weren't a religious family. But Mother and Father wanted their children to know about their heritage. Once a week, while their playmates were at church, Hana and George sat with a special teacher who taught them about Jewish holidays and Jewish history."
  100. ^ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807531480 "Alternating chapters tell not only of the Jewish Hana Brady's deportation..."
  101. ^ Surviving in Silence: A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust, the Harry I. Dunai Story. Gallaudet University Press. 2002. ISBN 9781563681813.
  102. ^ "Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos". Retrieved 29 July 2006.[dead link] "Since his family was Jewish, they were in great danger"
  103. ^ Bauerova, Ladka. "Petr Ginz diaries". isurvived.org. Archived from the original on 24 April 2022. Recalling the diaries of another teenage victim of the Holocaust, Anne Frank, they reveal a budding Czech literary and artistic genius whose life was cut short by the Nazis... Moon Landscape connects the dream of one Jewish boy who is a symbol of the talent lost in the Holocaust
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  105. ^ Australian Graduate School of Management "Czechoslovak-born Lowy"
    Australian Jewish Times Archived 23 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine "In Forbes magazine's second annual Top 10 rich list for Australia and New Zealand, four Jewish businessmen feature prominently. Frank Lowy (second), Richard Pratt (Third), John Gandel (sixth) and Harry Triguboff (eighth) all had reported wealth of over $1 billion; both accessed 3 December 2006.
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  108. ^ "World Center for Holocaust Research, Education, Documentation and Commemoration". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  109. ^ Alan Sidransky (a grandnephew of Zoli Grinfeld)
  110. ^ Contributor for "Yoshua Rusnak", a descendant of Yoshua's brother Jakub's son Andrej Stef "Andrew Stephen" Rusnak.
  111. ^ "Steinitz, Wilhelm". JewishEncyclopedia.com. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
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