Remnants of the Past or Laboratories of Modernity?
Remnants of the Past or Laboratories of Modernity?

The Jewish Political Communities in Moravia after 1848 and their Archival Sources

Summary/Abstract: The workshop Remnants of the Past or Laboratories of Modernity? The Jewish Political Communities in Moravia after 1848 and their Archival Sources was organized from 3 to 5 May 2016 in Olomouc by the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences in co-operation with the Kurt and Ursula Schubert Centre for Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc. It dealt with a rather marginal topic of the Jewish history of Moravia and Central Europe and an almost forgotten topic of modern Moravian history in general – with the Jewish townships that were established in the aftermath of the failed revolution of 1848 on the territory of the former Jewish ghettos or streets in the suburbs of Christian towns. These Jewish municipalities which emerged from premodern Jewish autonomy thus stood in contrast to the abolition and confusion of former Jewish towns in the course of 1848, as for example in Prague.

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