Modern confectionary industries, which once again were operated by Jews, sprang up. From the trade of old clothing, which had already operated in Moravia in the 16th century, clothing factories arose. The two generations preceding the clothing designer Mayer Mandl also…
Category: Jews of Bohemia
BEFORE THE DELUGE: THE JEWS OF BOHEMIA (PART II)
The Jewish community was religious and in the final analysis also a culturally peculiar group, so that the ordinary body of Bohemian citizens felt the Jews as an alien body. On the other hand, Jewish life and property were insured…
BEFORE THE DELUGE: THE JEWS OF BOHEMIA (PART I)
The Czechoslovakian Republic, outside of the historical lands of the Bohemian Crown (Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia), stretches outward to include two great regions which previously belonged to Hungary: Slovakia and sub-Carpathia, also known as Carpathian-Russia. The Jews fell into the…