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“The excesses of Nachod”, newspaper illustration from Das Interessante Blatt of 20 April 1899

Report in the newspaper Das Interessante Blatt of 20 April 1899 about anti-Jewish violence in the Bohemian district town of Nachod. The title page shows “the shops after plundering during the excesses in Nachod in Bohemia.”

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    Jewish life in the Habsburg Empire

    Around the turn of the century, over 2 million people of the Jewish faith lived in the Habsburg Empire. In the age of liberalism, the gradual introduction of legal equality raised their hopes of social integration, while at the same time the emerging anti-Semitism was developing to be a potential threat to the Jewish population.