An original guide, the first of its kind. Includes: (a) 138 encyclopedic entries, (b) a clear history of the Jewish settlement in the Czech Republic, (c) the first complete inventory of building monuments, which are often the only tangible evidence of the existence of more than 600 Jewish communities, (d) a brief history of 137 Jewish communities in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia + the state of their synagogues and cemeteries + important personalities, (e) brief information about 500 other extinct communities and their building monuments; among others. synagogues and cemeteries destroyed during the Nazi years and after World War II, f) a brief guide to Jewish monuments in Bratislava and its surroundings.
English edition