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Michal Chmelenský: The Jewish community in the Sušice area

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: January 13, 2015, 17:00 – 19:00

The presentation of a book on the history of now-disappeared Jewish historical landmarks and the personal stories of members of Jewish religious community and associations in the south-western foothills of the Šumava. Michal Chmelenský, who will also present the results of field research he conducted in 2011, will discuss the method of documenting the history of rural Jewish communities, the possibility of reviving the collective memory in the Czech borderlands, and the form that could take.

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