History of the Jews in the Czech lands
Židé v Českých zemích Juden der böhmischen Länder (יהדות בוהמיה (צ'כיה בעמישע יידן | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| 2,349 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Languages | |
| Czech, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Judeo-Czech | |
| Religion | |
| Judaism, Frankism, Jewish Brotherhoods | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, Slovak Jews, Austrian Jews, German Jews, Hungarian Jews, Ukrainian Jews |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 35,699 | — |
| 1930 | 37,093 | +3.9% |
| 1991 | 218 | −99.4% |
| 2011 | 521 | +139.0% |
| 2021 | 2,349 | +350.9% |
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The history of the Jews in the Czech lands, historically the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, including the modern Czech Republic (i.e. Bohemia, Moravia, and the southeast or Czech Silesia), goes back at least 1100 years. There is evidence that Jews have lived in Moravia and Bohemia since as early as the 10th century. Jewish communities flourished here specifically in the 13th, 16th, 17th centuries, and again in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Local Jews were mostly murdered in the Holocaust, or exiled at various points. As of 2021, there were only about 3000 Jews officially registered in the Czech Republic, albeit the actual number is probably as much as ten times higher.