The Jewish ghetto as history. (reminiscence of the old Jewish quarter of Boskovice, Czech Republic)

From: The New Leader | Date: December 1, 1997 | Copyright information

A journalist who first visited the Jewish quarter of Boskovice in 1990 returns seven years later, finding the place to be thoroughly modernized. The Jewish ghetto has undergone renovation, with the synagogue and many other old buildings restored to their original appearance.

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 ...

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