Jiří Fiedler

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Jiří Fiedler (born March 4, 1935 in Olomouc ; † January 31, 2014 in Prague ) was a Czech historian , writer , collaborator at the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia (Czech: Encyklopedie židovských obcí v Čechách a na Moravě) and research assistant at the Jewish Museum in Prague .

Jiří Fiedler (2009)

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Jiří Fiedler was born on March 4, 1935 in Olomouc. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague . After completing his studies, Fiedler worked as a reader, editor and publisher of books for children and young people at the Czech publisher Albatros . He translated some works from Polish and Serbo-Croatian into Czech.

In the 1970s, Fiedler began to photograph and document Jewish monuments in Bohemia and Moravia out of private interest. For this purpose he rode his bike with his backpack on his back all over the country and took thousands of photos of synagogues and their ruins, Jewish cemeteries, tombstones, rabbi apartments, schools, mikvahs, etc. Many of them despised them in communist times Evidence of Jewish history was destroyed by the state organs in the following years and the memory of them now only survives in Fiedler's photos. Fiedler was interrogated by the secret service several times because of this activity . The Jewish Museum in Prague, which was dominated by communists, forbade him to enter its archives.

After the Velvet Revolution , Fiedler was able to publish several books as a result of his many years of work, which were also translated into English. He was hired as a research assistant at the Jewish Museum in Prague in 1996, where he began to work on the Encyclopedia of the Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia (Czech: Encyklopedie židovských obcí, sídlišť a památných míst v České republice) with his collected material as part of a museum project create. Fiedler worked as an employee in the Jewish Museum in Prague until the end of 2012 and then continued as a freelancer.

In February 2014, 78-year-old Jiří Fiedler and his 75-year-old wife Dagmar were found murdered in their apartment in Prague. The funeral took place on March 3, 2014 in Prague. The New York Times printed an obituary for Jiří Fiedler on March 8, 2014.

Works

  • with Arno Pařík and Petr Ehl: Staré židovské hřbitovy Čech a Moravy. Paseka 1991, ISBN 80-85192-10-1 .
  • Židovské památky v Čechách a na Moravě. Sefer, 1992, ISBN 80-900895-1-8 , slightly modified online edition at www2.holocaust.cz / ...
  • Jewish Sights of Bohemia and Moravia. Gefen Books, 1996, ISBN 80-900895-0-X .
  • with Arno Pařík and Petr Ehl: Old Bohemian and Moravian Jewish Cemeteries. Paseka, 1996, ISBN 80-85192-12-8 .
  • Židovské památky Tachovska (Průvodce historií Západních Čech) (Czech Edition) Nakladatelsti Českého lesa, 1998, ISBN 80-86125-03-3 .
  • Židovské památky Tachovska, Plánska a Stříbrska. Domažlice Nakladatelství Českého lesa, ISBN 978-80-86125-81-7 .
  • with Leo Pavlát, Vladimír Sadek, Jiřina Šedinová, Miroslav Kárný, Anita Franková and Alexandr Putík: 1. Židovské dějiny a myšlení od biblických dob do současnosti. 2. Židé v Čechách a na Moravě. 3. Persekuce a vyhlazení Židů za 2.světové války. 4. Anti-Semitism - nejsetrvalejší zášť v dějinách lidstva. 5. Židovské tradice a zvyky. 5 volumes. Židovské muzeum, 2005, ISBN 80-86889-11-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ databazeknih.cz
  2. ↑ jewishmuseum.cz
  3. ↑ rozhlas.cz
  4. ↑ ztis.cz
  5. ↑ databazeknih.cz
  6. ↑ tabletmag.com
  7. ↑ jewishmuseum.cz
  8. ↑ rozhlas.cz
  9. ↑ timesofisrael.com
  10. ↑ ztis.cz
  11. ↑ nytimes.com

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SURNAME Fiedler, Jiří
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Olomouc
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2014
Place of death Prague