The reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II significantly affected the traditional way of education of the Jewish population

Abstract

The main theme of this paper is monitoring of the Jewish students at Charles University in Prague (Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine) in the second half of the 19th century (e.g. their numbers on the faculties of the University, their birthplace or home, social status, age structure etc.).

Keywords

• reforms
• Maria
• Theresa
• Joseph
• significantly
• affected
• traditional
• way
• education
• Jewish
• population