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*Click on the correct town in the "Modern Town & Country" column; you will need to log in to see the location page. | *Click on the correct town in the "Modern Town & Country" column; you will need to log in to see the location page. | ||
*Scroll down to "Nearby Jewish Communities" for a list of the Jewish communities by your town, starting with the closest. The closer the community, the likelier it is the Jewish community/synagogue to have created records for your town. | *Scroll down to "Nearby Jewish Communities" for a list of the Jewish communities by your town, starting with the closest. The closer the community, the likelier it is the Jewish community/synagogue to have created records for your town. | ||
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*Go to the [https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/all/ JewishGen Unified Search]. | |||
*Search for your individual. | |||
*Scroll down the page and click on "List [number] records" next to a record type of interest. | |||
*In the URL column, click on the nacr.cz link; the JewishGen indexes link directly to a scan of the original image the index is based on. | |||
*To determine which Jewish community the record is from, either click on "More" in the JewishGen search result or click on "Národní archivMatriky židovských náboženských obcí v českých krajích" ("National ArchivesRegisters of Jewish religious communities in the Czech regions") in the upper right-hand corner of the website showing the original image and look for the location listed next to "Název" ("Name"). | |||
=== Help with Czech Republic Jewish Research === | === Help with Czech Republic Jewish Research === | ||
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Jewish communities are documented in the Czech lands since the tenth century, though Jews were likely present as early as the second century A.D. Most of the Jewish population was in the city of Prague which had both Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities. A Jewish charter was issued by the King of Bohemia in 1254 introducing some protection, but various forms of persecution existed for centuries. In 1726 Charles VI attempted to reduce the Jewish population by his Family Laws which permitted only the eldest sons of Jewish families to marry. This only encouraged Jews to disperse over the countryside. The Edict of Toleration in 1781 guaranteed freedom of worship but other modernizing policies associated with the reforms of the era cost the Jews their internal autonomy and forced Germanization. During the Nazi occupation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 78,000 out of the existing 92,000 Jews in the Czech Republic (85%) perished in the Holocaust. Most surviving Jews left after the war. | Jewish communities are documented in the Czech lands since the tenth century, though Jews were likely present as early as the second century A.D. Most of the Jewish population was in the city of Prague which had both Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities. A Jewish charter was issued by the King of Bohemia in 1254 introducing some protection, but various forms of persecution existed for centuries. In 1726 Charles VI attempted to reduce the Jewish population by his Family Laws which permitted only the eldest sons of Jewish families to marry. This only encouraged Jews to disperse over the countryside. The Edict of Toleration in 1781 guaranteed freedom of worship but other modernizing policies associated with the reforms of the era cost the Jews their internal autonomy and forced Germanization. During the Nazi occupation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 78,000 out of the existing 92,000 Jews in the Czech Republic (85%) perished in the Holocaust. Most surviving Jews left after the war. | ||
=== [[Czechia Jewish Registers | === Online [[Czechia Jewish Registers]] === | ||
*[[Czechia Jewish Registers|Jewish Registers]] | *[[Czechia Jewish Registers|Jewish Registers]] | ||
*Records of the former Jewish communities of the entire Czech Republic are located at [https://vademecum.nacr.cz/vademecum/ the National Archives in Prague]. Some of these records are already online. To learn more, click [[Czechia Jewish Registers|here]]. For a tutorial on how to navigate the website, watch [https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/lessons/finding-jewish-records-at-the-czech-national-archives this video]. | *Records of the former Jewish communities of the entire Czech Republic are located at [https://vademecum.nacr.cz/vademecum/ the National Archives in Prague]. Some of these records are already online. To learn more, click [[Czechia Jewish Registers|here]]. For a tutorial on how to navigate the website, watch [https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/lessons/finding-jewish-records-at-the-czech-national-archives this video]. | ||