LAUNCH OF THE BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HALL ANNUAL LECTURE ON THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF JEWS IN THE CZECH AND SLOVAK LANDS
This year, the Jewish Museum in Prague – in co-operation with the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews (www.shcsj.org) and the
Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York – will be launching an annual lecture on the history and culture of
Jews in the Czech and Slovak Lands. The lecture will be held each autumn at the Bohemian National Hall in New York. The aim
is to actively help strengthen awareness in the USA of Jewish history and culture in the area covered by the boundaries of
the erstwhile Czechoslovak Republic, and to enable scholars from universities, academic institutions and other organizations
in various countries to travel to New York for this purpose. The call for lecture proposals will be announced by the Jewish
Museum in Prague on March 31 each year. It will be open to a wide range of scholars working on a variety of topics centred
around Jewish history and culture in the Czech lands, Slovakia and in the other regions of the former Habsburg Monarchy from
the Middle Ages to the present.
INVITATION TO THE ONLINE EXHIBITION "SOUVENIRS FROM THE SEA"
The collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague also contains a small and rather curious group of objects in the form of sea snail shells with etched inscriptions in Hebrew. This is evidence of an interesting cultural phenomenon that
emerged in what was then Palestine at the very beginning of the twentieth century, probably continuing for the next 30 or
so years. These inscribed shells also appear in other Judaica collections, as well in specialized auctions, which suggests
that this was indeed a mass phenomenon.
STAY IN TOUCH THROUGH OUR DIGITAL CHANNELS
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have a look around our venues and permanent exhibitions:
Klausen Synagogue - Ceremonial Hall - Maisel Synagogue - Pinkas Synagogue - Spanish Synagogue - Old Jewish Cemetery -
check out our on-line exhibitions
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watch a documentary about the Jewish Museum in Prague
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browse our on-line collections catalogue
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take a journey behind the scenes - visit our restoration workshops and library
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read a flipbook about our planned new permanent exhibition Friedl's Cabinet: Children's drawings from Ghetto Theresienstadt
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