A new issue of the journal Judaica Bohemiae (49/2014, 1) came out at the end of June 2014. This volume includes a paper by William C. McDonald analyzing the anti-Jewish song-cycle of Michel Beheim (d. 1474), which significantly contributes to an understanding of medieval anti-Jewish sentiment. The next paper, by Joseph M. Davis, deals with the concepts of family and friendship on the basis of a famous group of Yiddish letters written by Prague Jews in 1619. The third of the main papers, by Jan Machala, illustrates the troubled fate of Jewish monuments during the Second World War by exploring the example of synagogues in Central Moravia (Holešov and Kroměříž).

In the reports section, Pavel Kocman, Petr Kubín and František Trampota provide information about new archaeological research projects and finds relating to the Jews of Mikulov, Jana Šplíchalová describes the successful exhibition of the Jewish Museum in Prague Truth and Lies: Filming in the Ghetto Terezín, 1942–1945 and P. Kocman gives an account of the workshop Jews in the Medieval Town. Urban Space in the Middle Ages – a Place of Coexistence and Conflicts, which was held in Prague in November 2013.

The final section of the journal contains book reviews: Iveta Cermanová assesses Martina Niedhammer’s Nur eine “Geld-Emancipation?” Loyalitäten und Lebenswelten des Prager jüdischen Großbürgertums 1800–1867 (2013) and Radek Lipovsky looks at Jana Vobecká’s Demographic Avant-Garde. Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah (2013).