History of the Jews in the Czech lands

Ethnic group Czech Jews, Bohemian Jews, Moravian JewsŽidé v Českých zemích Juden der böhmischen Länder (יהדות בוהמיה (צ'כיהבעמישע יידןJews taking snuff in Prague, painting by Mírohorský, 1885Total population2,349Regions with significant populationsLanguagesCzech, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Judeo-CzechReligionJudaism, Frankism, Jewish BrotherhoodsRelated ethnic groupsJews, Ashkenazi Jews, Slovak Jews, Austrian Jews, German Jews, Hungarian Jews, Ukrainian Jews Historical local Jewish populationYearPop.±%192135,699— 193037,093+3.9%1991218−99.4%2011521+139.0%20212,349+350.9%Source: The history of the Jews in the Czech lands, historically the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, including the modern Czech Republic (i.e. Bohemia, Moravia, and the southeast or Czech Silesia), goes back at least 1,100 years. There is evidence that Jews have lived in Moravia and Bohemia since as early as the 10th century. Jewish communities flourished here specifically in the 13th, 16th, 17th centuries, and again in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Local Jews were mostly murdered in the Holocaust, or exiled at various points. As of 2021, there were only about 3,000 Jews o