Ostrava

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has abstract: Coal-mining and industrial town in northern Moravia (near the Polish border) in today’s Czech Republic. Ostrava (Ger., Mährisch-Ostrau; known as Moravská Ostrava until 1918) was one of the youngest Jewish communities in Moravia. Like most mining towns in the Habsburg lands, Ostra…
Coal-mining and industrial town in northern Moravia (near the Polish border) in today’s Czech Republic. Ostrava (Ger., Mährisch-Ostrau; known as Moravská Ostrava until 1918) was one of the youngest Jewish communities in Moravia. Like most mining towns in the Habsburg lands, Ostrava was off-limits to Jews until the late eighteenth century. One of its first Jewish inhabitants in modern times, a distiller, arrived in 1792, and the first regular prayer service took place in 1832. Jews began arriving in larger numbers after 1848, when Habsburg Jews were granted freedom of movement, and again after 1860, when residential restrictions were finally lifted.
title: Ostrava
alternative label: Ostrava
preferred label: Ostrava
has related: Bohemia and Moravia
has related: Brno
has related: Czech Republic
has related: Czechoslovakia
has related: Galicia
has related: Ḥaluts, He-
has related: Prague
has related: Silesia
has related: Slovakia
has related: Subcarpathian Rus’
has related: Terezín
has related: Židovská Strana