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The administrative seat of the Jewish community as a religious congregation was also the seat of many associations that cared for the needy; it was here that the life of youth, women's and Zionist associations developed.

Although resentment toward Jews and everything Jewish never disappeared, the interwar Czechoslovak Republic offered rights unseen in some neighboring countries to its Jewish citizens: for example, there were no restrictions on the number of Jewish students at universities in Czechoslovakia.

However, everything began to change radically after the Nazis came to power in neighboring Germany, and especially during the Second Republic, after the surrendering of the Czechoslovak borderlands. The anti-Jewish activities of the German Nazis merged into a single stream with the Czech Nazis’ and fascists’ inciting hatred against Jews.