Březnice

Permanent exhibition “Jewish Learning in the Czech Lands”

The exhibition aims to provide a brief historical overview of traditional Jewish education in the Czech lands before the year 1848. Visitors learn about the most important representatives of rabbinical learning from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century within their historical and social contexts. The exhibition’s regional section focuses on surviving monuments of Březnice’s Jewish community such as the Popper Palace, the synagogue, the rabbinate building, the school, and the cemetery. The exhibition also features a multimedia presentation of all the buildings in Březnice’s Jewish quarter, plus biographies of important individuals from the Březnice region, with a special emphasis on the Popper noble family. The local Jewish community did not play an exceptionally important role in the history of Jews within the Czech lands, but it has left us one of the most interesting and most preserved Jewish quarters in all of Bohemia. Its urban-architectural value places it among the most important reminders of small-town Jewish life in the final quarter of the second millennium.