Annotation
In the second semester, the course focuses on the topics mentioned above, with an emphasis on the issue of European Ashkenazi communities from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century:
1. The position of Jews in the majority society,
2. Character and structure of the Jewish community,
3. Development of synagogue architecture,
4. Ashkenazi and Sephardic scholarship and its reception in the Czech Lands,
5. Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Hebrew printing houses,
6. Jewish collectors in the 19th century,
7. An overview of the history of Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia from the beginning to the 20th century.