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The Jewish Community of Prague
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1702
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The Klausen Synagogue in Prague gets its name from the kloyz (a complex of buildings used for religious purposes, including synagogues) that originally stood on its site, erected in the 1570s. The…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
17th Century
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5323 [1562]: King Maximilian, may he be exalted, came here, to Prague, on Monday the 6th of Tishri [5 September], and he was crowned on Hoshanah Rabba [the last day of Sukkot—20 September]. In that…
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Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1615
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- No one shall seek permission to become a master, unless he has it in writing from the Jewish Elders of Prague that he is native of the place, and he shall previously furnish the Jewish Elders with a…
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The Jewish Tailors’ Guild of Prague
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1690
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In the words of this honest song,
Many pious Jews will delight.
Women and children, young men and young women,
This honest song will please the heart of every Jewish child.
In all your…
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Jacob Tausk
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1666
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1613
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Temerl bat Hirsch Perlhefter
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1685/6
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I had been living in tranquility in my home, refreshed in my sanctuary, my palace, in the holy congregation of Prague for some twenty-eight years after they had chosen me from the assembly to be a…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1645
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Question: I was asked by the leaders of the holy congregation of Prostějov: A small piece of paper on which was drawn the image of a menorah, with the verses beginning “May God be gracious to us” from…
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Menaḥem Mendl Krochmal
Places:
Nikolsburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Mikulov, Czech Republic)
Date:
Before 1661
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Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1741