Rabbi Berel Wein - The Jews of Prague

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Berel Wein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] the capital of bohemia today the capital of the czech republic it's one of the oldest jewish communities in europe it's still functioning today even though there are a small number of jews though as the roth of prague told me personally two years ago that there are personally two years ago that there are probably 50 000 people he said in prague that have some jewish blood but because of things that we will discuss that occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries there are half jews quarter jews jews who don't know they are jews hidden jews prague is a microcosm of all of the tragedies that have happened in the jewish world especially in the last two centuries the jews jews were in prague in the 10th century in the 900s we already have a record that there were over 300 jewish families in prague and it's interesting that whereas the jews from in germany uh mainly were in the rhineland and in the spires and worms and mines uh they were the tall medium of rabbenu gershom or agola gershom or agola and that's where rashi got his start before moving back to france the jews in prague came directly to prague from babylonia and prague is on the river and it was an important trading post on the river in roman times already and therefore it was a natural place for a city to be developed and wherever cities were developed in

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1. 0:00[Music] the capital of bohemia today the capital of the czech republic it's one of the…
2. 5:41the old neutral it's a theory it's as good a theory as any and the jews…
3. 11:50on easter sunday preached about the malevolence of the jews and the fact that they were…
4. 18:03which in effect meant that the jews were going to be forced out of the money…
5. 23:46representation on the building committee because eventually you know you we you know we have a…
6. 30:02a say for thor and really buckovedic and uh but that was the thing so here…
7. 36:08he considered removing that because he said it was shameful but he consulted with his cabinet…
8. 41:51which really uh made prague special the great marael maprag lo uh ben batsale uh he…
9. 48:08as the rabbi in prague and the uh siddhim and the more uh right-wing elements let…
10. 54:15czechoslovakia became an independent republic and was led by two people who again were from the…

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