Jewish Prague

Fate of the house

The Israelite Confraternity House was temporarily restituted after the war, but it remained in state administration.

Computer history fans might be interested to know that one of the first computers in the country, EPOS, was installed in the Jewish Brotherhood's Great Hall in 1961. After 1967 it was replaced by a new, more powerful machine, the EPOS 2 - ZPA 600, operated by the Research Institute of Mathematical Machines. It now occupied basically the entire second floor of the house.

In 1971, the computing centre was taken over by Military Construction Company and Czechoslovak Television, in 1974 the whole house was taken over by Charles University, which planned to establish a congress centre there, and from 1978 the second floor was used for the temporary location of the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy. Just before the restitution in 1993, an extensive and insensitive reconstruction of the whole complex was planned, which fortunately was not realized.


How is the history of the Israelite Confraternity House commemorated on the site today?

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