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Article: The Jewish ghetto as history. (reminiscence of the old Jewish quarter of Boskovice, Czech Republic)
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
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I first visited Boskovice, in the Czech Republic, in 1990. The Communists had been ousted less than a year before, and this town in the wooded hills north of Brno, the capital of Moravia, was still waking up to the fact. I seemed to be the only foreign visitor that brilliant October day. Not many locals were out and about either. For most of the morning I wandered through the picturesque but run-down market and poked around the crooked lanes of the decrepit former Jewish quarter.
Boskovice's Jewish quarter is one of the most extensive ghettos extant in Central Europe. Jews lived here as far back as the 14th century. By the mid-19th century they made up more than ...