A new issue of the journal Judaica Bohemiae (48/2013, 1) came out at the beginning of July 2013. The first paper, by Daniel Soukup, explores the medieval host desecration legends and examines the case of the alleged conversion of Rabbi Moses of Olomouc in 1425. The second paper, by Vera Leininger, looks at the legal status of Bohemian Jews and the restrictions on their ownership of real estate, focusing mainly on the late 18th and the first half of the 19th century and on the famous Przibram family of entrepreneurs in Prague. The third paper, by Michal Plavec, deals with an attractive topic of aviation history; on the basis of a large number of previously unknown archive documents, it explores the life and career of Lilly Steinschneider (1891–1975), the first Hungarian pilot of Jewish origin and the wife of Count Johannes Coudenhove-Kalergi, owner of the Poběžovice (Ronsperg) estate.

In the reports section, Ivana Ebelová introduces a project that involves editing census lists of the Jewish population in Bohemia from the years 1723/24–1811 with a view to creating and providing on-line access to an electronic database. Michal Frankl and David Lawson summarize the results of a documentation project focusing on the fate of Ostrava Jews (a collaboration between the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Kingston Synagogue in London). Pavel Kocman, Magdaléna Jánošíková, Simona Malá and Monika Halbinger report on the following major conferences that were held recently: A Nobleman’s Jew, a Jewish Nobleman. Jewish Elites and Jewish Nobility in the Early and Late Modern Periods (Tovačov, 4 April 2013); Heresy, Heterodoxy and Conversion in Early Modern Europe (Budapest, 20–21 January 2013); The Land in Between – Three Centuries of Jewish Migration to, from and across Moravia,1648–1948 (Olomouc, 18–20 November 2012) and ‘Avigdor, Beneš, Gitl.’ Juden in Böhmen und Mähren im Mittelalter. Samuel Steinherz zum Gedenken (Brno, 27–29 November 2012). The volume ends with the following book reviews: Hebrejský knihtisk v Čechách a na Moravě / Hebrew Printing in Bohemia and Moravia (ed. Olga Sixtová, 2012) reviewed by Rachel L. Greenblatt, Jaroslav Kuntoš’s Silver Judaica from the Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague (2012) reviewed by Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Ines Koeltzsch’s Geteilte Kulturen. Eine Geschichte der tschechisch-jüdisch-deutschen Beziehungen in Prag (1918–1938) (2012) reviewed by Tatjana Lichtenstein and Rudolf Fišer’s Třebíč. Příběhy židovských familiantů [Třebíč. Stories of Jewish Familiants] (2012) reviewed by Martin Štindl.

Published since 1965 by the Jewish Museum in Prague, Judaica Bohemiae focuses on Jewish history and culture in Bohemia, Moravia and the wider Central European area (the territory of the former Habsburg Monarchy). The texts are in English and German.