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Place in Czech Republic

What happened to the Jews in Prague

59 events, 1096 AD to 1952 AD

11th century

  1. 1096 AD Forced baptism of Jews in Bohemia · Prague, Czech Republic

13th century

  1. 1290 AD Rindfleisch band attacks the Prague ghetto (1290) · Prague, Czech Republic
  2. 1298 AD Rindfleisch band attacks the Prague ghetto (1298) · Prague, Czech Republic

14th century

  1. 1305 AD Ritual murder charges in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  2. 1321 AD Seventy-five Jews burned at the stake in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  3. 1336 AD 53 Jews burned in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  4. 1336 AD Jews burned at Prague on blood libel accusation · Prague, Czech Republic
  5. 1336 AD Prague synagogue torn down · Prague, Czech Republic
  6. 1361 AD Charles IV cancels debts owed to Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  7. 1388 AD Massacres following ritual murder charge · Prague, Czech Republic
  8. 1389 AD Destruction of Prague Jewish cemetery and synagogues · Prague, Czech Republic
  9. 1389 AD Massacre following host desecration charge · Prague, Czech Republic
  10. 1391 AD Well-poisoning charge against Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  11. 1399 AD Violence against Jews in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  12. 1400 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Prague · Prague, Czech Republic

15th century

  1. 1421 AD Plundering of the Prague ghetto · Prague, Czech Republic
  2. 1448 AD Ghetto despoiled after Podiebrad takes Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  3. 1478 AD Destruction of the Judengarten cemetery · Prague, Czech Republic
  4. 1483 AD Ghetto of Prague despoiled · Prague, Czech Republic

16th century

  1. 1503 AD Neustadt bars Jews and commerce is curtailed · Prague, Czech Republic
  2. 1507 AD Altstadt council orders Jews to leave the ghetto · Prague, Czech Republic
  3. 1515 AD Interest limits and mandatory dress for Prague Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  4. 1539 AD Jewish merchants barred from Ladislaus Hall · Prague, Czech Republic
  5. 1541 AD Banished · Prague, Czech Republic
  6. 1547 AD Censorship of Jewish books begins · Prague, Czech Republic
  7. 1554 AD Jews readmitted to Prague for payment · Prague, Czech Republic
  8. 1559 AD Seizure of Hebrew books in Prague for examination · Prague, Czech Republic
  9. 1559–1561 AD Second expulsion of Jews from Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  10. 1561 AD Compulsory Jesuit sermons for Prague Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  11. 1566 AD Maximilian bars future expulsion from Prague · Prague, Czech Republic

17th century

  1. 1623 AD Wallenstein's public punishment of Jacob Thein · Prague, Czech Republic
  2. 1630 AD Compulsory conversionist sermons for Jews in Vienna and Prague · Vienna, Austria and elsewhere
  3. 1638–1639 AD New poll, war and army taxes on Prague Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  4. 1680 AD Prague ghetto destroyed by arsonists · Prague, Czech Republic
  5. 1689 AD Archbishop forbids Christians to shelter Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  6. 1689 AD Fire destroys Prague ghetto synagogues · Prague, Czech Republic
  7. 1689 AD Fleeing Jews plundered after ghetto fire · Prague, Czech Republic
  8. 1690 AD Jew forced to inscribe Tetragrammaton on Prague bridge cross · Prague, Czech Republic
  9. 1693 AD Emperor closes the Altschule synagogue · Prague, Czech Republic
  10. 1694 AD Desecration of body of father in Simon Abeles case, Prague · Prague, Czech Republic

18th century

  1. 1702 AD Prague ghetto walled off from the Altstadt · Prague, Czech Republic
  2. 1740–1780 AD Prague Jews required to wear yellow collars under Maria Theresa · Prague, Czech Republic
  3. 1742 AD Jewess hanged in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  4. 1744 AD Croatians demolish the Altschule in Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  5. 1744 AD Desecration of the Prague Jewish cemetery · Prague, Czech Republic
  6. 1744 AD Plunder of the Prague ghetto · Prague, Czech Republic
  7. 1744–1748 AD Maria Theresa expels the Jews from Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  8. 1748 AD Limited readmission of Jewish families to Prague · Prague, Czech Republic
  9. 1748 AD Tax of 204,000 gulden on the new Prague Jewish community · Prague, Czech Republic
  10. 1748–1760 AD Decrees on beards and yellow cloth badges for Prague Jews · Prague, Czech Republic
  11. 1750 AD Fire in Prague ghetto burns town hall · Prague, Czech Republic
  12. 1785 AD Jewish physicians allowed to treat Christians · Prague, Czech Republic
  13. 1787 AD Joseph II orders closure of the Prague Jewish cemetery · Prague, Czech Republic

19th century

  1. 1841 AD Prague Jews barred from summering in Bubentsch · Prague, Czech Republic
  2. 1848 AD Anti-Jewish riots during the 1848 revolution · Prague, Czech Republic
  3. 1848–1849 AD Equality of citizens proclaimed; Prague Jewish community joins the city · Prague, Czech Republic

20th century

  1. 1941 AD Prague physician Karol Boetim dies of typhus near Lódz · Prague, Czech Republic
  2. 1942 AD One thousand Prague Jews deported east and murdered · Prague, Czech Republic
  3. 1952 AD Slansky Trial in Prague amid antisemitic Stalinist show trials · Prague, Czech Republic

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