Pavel Kosatík: Entrepreneurship under the Star of David Thursday, October 31 at 6 p.m. Time has distorted the historical reality of the significant contribution to the industrial...
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The aim of the exhibition is to introduce the public to the unique phenomenon of the transfer of Torah scrolls, originally from Moravian and Czech synagogues to Great Britain, which took place in 1964. The transfer was historically preceded by the efforts of two museum institutions, the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Jewish Central Museum for Moravia-Silesia in Mikulov. The Torah, a black flame on a white flame, represents the sacred text that has provided for two and a half thousand years
continuity in values and liturgy for Jewish communities in the Diaspora, including those that were brutally decimated during the Nazi occupation of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. In a brief historical excursion, the complex force field of Nazi institutions and the employees of the Prague Jewish community at their mercy is presented here, when, after the incident with the so-called Mikulov collection, two bulletins were issued, in June and August 1942, ordering the removal of liturgical objects, including Torah scrolls, to Prague. The post-war renewal of many Jewish communities became a temporary phenomenon, with all due respect to those who
they sought to preserve their communities and maintain their activities; the political developments in the country also had an influence...
Pavel Kosatík: Entrepreneurship under the Star of David Thursday, October 31 at 6 p.m. Time has distorted the historical reality of the significant contribution to the industrial...
Does morality and ethics need religion? Wednesday 23 October at 6 pm Professor of Nuclear Chemistry, RNDr. Jiří Hála, member of the Jewish Community of Brno...
The influence of great history on the fate of Jews during the Shoah, using Miroslav as an example Wednesday, October 9 at 6 pm For Jews in...
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