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Двадцать пять лет тому назад, 4-ого апреля 1950 г. был основан Государственный еврейский музей в Праге. Для общественности оп открылся 26-ого июля 1950 г. после торжественного выступления тогдашнего министра просвещения и культуры проф. доктора Зденька Неедлого.
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The State Jewish Museum was founded twenty-five years ago on April 4th, 1950. On June 26th it was opened to the public after the formal speech made by the Minister of Education and Culture of that time professor Zdeněk Nejedlý.
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The contribution contains material left by the late PhDr. O. Muneles (1894-1967), who specialized, among others, in the epitaphs in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. Published here are his comments on nineteen selected tombstone inscriptions (Mordekhai Maisel, Rabbi Löw, David Gans, Shelomo Efraim Luntschitz, Hendl Bashevi, members of the Spira family, David Oppenheim, and others). The comments include biographical and genealogical data, references to sources, etc.
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The article describes seven manuscripts from the collections of the State Jewish Museum. The manuscripts are of astronomical, geographical, medical and others contents (Abraham Zacuto, Yitshak Israeli, etc.).
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As our readers have been informed (Judaica Bohemiae, 1974/2, V. Sadek: Die Restaurierung und Konservierung des Alten jüdischen Friedhofs in Prag), in the past years the State Jewish Museum worked out a detailed plan for gradual restoration and conservation of the Prague Old Jewish Cemetery in order that this monument exceptionally precious from the point of view of both history and art-history could be fully preserved for the future generations.
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The administrative organization of country Jews in Bohemia (so-called “Landesjudenschaft“) is the subject of this paper. Part of the text deals with the development and inner structure of the “Landesjudenschaft“ established at the end of the 17th century (statutes, organizations, electoral system, distribution and collection of taxes, etc.).
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As our readers have been informed (Judaica Bohemiae, 1974/2, V. Sadek: Die Restaurierung und Konservierung des Alten jüdischen Friedhofs in Prag), in the past years the State Jewish Museum worked out a detailed plan for gradual restoration and conservation of the Prague Old Jewish Cemetery in order that this monument exceptionally precious from the point of view of both history and art-history could be fully preserved for the future generations.
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The paper deals with responsive texts from “Tsemah tsedeq“ by Menahem Mendel Krochmal, who lived in Moravia in the first half of the 17th century. The authors first mention the importance of rabbinical responsive literature as a valuable source of historical data and then analyse some of Krochmal’s responsive texts depicting the tension existing inside Jewish communities in that period (cf. A. Frankl-Grün: Geschichte der Juden in Kremsier, Breslau 1896).
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The article is devoted to children’s home I in L 417 in the Terezin concentration camp-ghetto. The boys led by professor W. Eisinger called their Terezin home the “Republic of Shkid“ (“Shkid“ stands for “škola imeni Dostojevskogo“, i.e. Dostoyevsky’s school). They followed the example of a Leningrad establishment for homeless children. The boys were also issuing an illegal mazagine of their own called “Vedem“, which is mentioned at the end of the article.
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The paper analyses the origin of the Czecho-Jewish Movement of the 1870’s. The development of the movement is followed up to the 1890’s (Siegfried Kappen, the origin and first years of the activities of the Association of Czech Academicians-Jews, the origin of Czech Jewish Almanac, Vojtěch Rakous, the society Or Tomid, attempts at introducing Hebrew-Czech liturgy into synagogues, etc.).
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The paper deals with the life and work of Vlastimil Artur Polák, a Jewish poet born at the Moravian town of Úsov in 1914 and descendant of an old Jewish family. It is, above all, Polàk’s cycle of German poems called “Die Stadt der Schwarzen Tore“ that is paid attention to. The cycle dating from the years 1938-1945 was inspired by the Terezin concentration camp-ghetto, besides others.
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A description of the collection of synagogue textiles to be found in the State Jewish Museum.
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The authoress characterizes the collection of Torah binders owned by the State Jewish Museum.
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Some basic information about Shelomo Molkho’s banner and garment also owned by the State Jewish Museum.
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A report on the restoration of textiles in the State Jewish Museum.
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A description of the museum’s collection of silver objects used in synagogues.
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Examples of silver objects restored in the museum’s workshop. A description of the work.
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The collection of pictures kept in the State Jewish Museum and a description of its character.
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