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White Places of Jewish Moravia and Vienna

"Moravia has been a haven for Jews from neighbouring countries for centuries, and these newcomers have contributed in many ways to the culture, society and religious life of Moravian Jews. From the middle of the 18th century onwards, Moravia tended to produce Jewish migrants itself, first because of repressive restrictions on residence, employment and marriage, and then, paradoxically, because of the freedoms brought by emancipation, first in 1848 and finally [...]

Martin C. Putna: New news from the Holy Land

Martin C. Putna: New News from the Holy Land Wednesday 19 February at 6 pm Professor Martin C. Putna is known not only to professionals but also to the general public for being "irreverent to authority, torn by emotions, full of energy, but also an erudite scholar who provokes thought," as the headline of one newspaper article put it. We are delighted that on 19 February 2025 he accepted [...]

Tantehorse: Invisible I./Hannah

Tantehorse: Invisible I./Hannah An autobiographical performance about the extraordinary actress and singer Hanka Frejková as an archaeology of her personal past In cooperation with Brno's HaDivadlo, we managed to fulfill one wish on 27 November 2024 - Hanka Frejková, who elaborated her fate and the story of her family in the book Divný kořeny, wished to present her story to the Brno audience. Her extraordinary life [...]

Pavel Kosatík: Entrepreneurship under the Star of David

Pavel Kosatík: Entrepreneurship under David's Star Thursday 31 October On Thursday 31 October 2024 we have scheduled a presentation of Pavel Kosatík's book entitled Entrepreneurship under David's Star in one of Brno's villas - Villa Löw-Beer on Drobného Street. As the title of the book suggests, it is an elaboration of the life stories of Jewish families, where not only the Tugendhats and Löw-Beers of [...]

Fioretta on April 28, 2024 at the Art Cinema

Fioretta April 28, 2024 at the Art Cinema Despite the sunny Sunday, many people came to the Art Cinema in the late afternoon for the screening of Fioretta. The attraction was the promised personal presence of its protagonist - Randy Schoenberg. He took his almost grown-up son with him on the trip to Europe, who also attended the filming of the movie. The American director [...]

White Places of Jewish Moravia and Silesia

David Placzek: Memoirs

Apart from the Mehrin book, which summarizes what has happened in the four years of preparation, we can safely say that the first title published in the Mehrin series is David Placzek's book entitled Memoirs.

CNFB SUPPORT

The Czech-German Fund for the Future is among the important supporters and partners of our activities since 2021. We appreciate this support!

SAKO helps

There are assignments that one fulfils with special pleasure, and one of them is thanking SAKO This spring we opened the "temporary" museum Malý Mehrin at 14 Vídeňská Street, when we managed to restore the ground floor at a cost of nearly 800,000 CZK. This year we have an even more difficult task ahead of us: to make the basement [...]

Portrait of Anna Löwy

Someone has offered us some interesting object or correspondence from ancestors that they think belongs in a museum like ours. Since the opening of the Little Mehrin, however, the number of such donations has clearly begun to increase. The most valuable one so far was brought to us personally from the United States by Ann Altman, a prominent scholar and direct descendant of several [...]