Persecution of Jews in Czechia

Crusaders
Jews were killed in Bohemia by Crusaders in the late 11th century and the mid-12th century during the First and Second Crusades. Many survivors were forcibly converted to Christianity.

Ghetto
For segregating Jews, a ghetto was established in Prague in 1262.

Blood libel
Jews were accused in blood libels, which are false accusations of having killed Christians (usually children) for rituals, in Prague in 1305 and again in 1893, České Budějovice in 1505, Kroměříž in 1889, Benátky nad Jizerou in 1892, and Kolín and Holešov in 1893. In České Budějovice, Jews were murdered.

Host desecration accusations
Jews were murdered after accusations of host desecration in Jindřichův Hradec, Kouřim, and Třebíč in 1338, Prague in 1389, and Louny in 1541. After Prague's clergy spread accusations of host desecration and blasphemy against Jews in 1389, Christian mobs murdered Jews and forcibly baptized Jewish women and children. Jews were expelled after an accusation in Plzeň in 1504.

15th-16th-century expulsions
Albert V, Margrave of Moravia, expelled Jews from Jihlava in 1426, and King Sigismund I of Bohemia expelled Jews from Cheb in 1430. In the mid-15th century, Franciscan John of Capistrano's sermons incited Christians to expel Jewish people from Brno, Jihlava, Olomouc, and Znojmo. Jews were also expelled from Most in 1453, Karlovy Vary in 1499, Plzeň in 1504, Uherske Hradiste in 1514, Ostrava in 1531, and all of Bohemia twice in the mid-16th century.

Bohemian monarchs
The king of Bohemia, Sigismund I, expelled Jews in 1430 from Cheb. He exempted Bohemian Christians from paying any interest they owed to Jewish moneylenders.

King Ferdinand I expelled Jews from Bohemia in 1541. After the Jews were allowed back, the king decreed for Jews to wear a Jewish badge in 1551 and in 1557 issued another decree ordering the expulsion of Jewish people.

In 1630, King Ferdinand II ordered Jews to attend the conversionist sermons of the Jesuits.

King Charles II in 1727 restricted the amount of Jews allowed in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, allowed only one son in a Jewish family to marry and begin a family, and in 1738 expelled Jews from Silesia. His successor Queen Maria Theresa ordered Jews to leave Prague in 1744. Later she wrote of Jews in 1777: "I know of no greater plague than this race, which on account of its deceit, usury and avarice is driving my subjects into beggary. Therefore as far as possible, the Jews are to be kept away and avoided."