Jewish community (Hostouň)
The Jewish community in Hostouň u Prahy (German Hostaun ), a town in the Okres Kladno district in the Czech Republic , existed until 1938.
history
There were Jews in Hostouň since the 16th century. Especially in the 18th and 19th centuries there was an important Jewish community in Hostouň. The Jewish community of Hostouň had a synagogue , a rabbi , a kosher slaughterhouse and a school. In 1792 the Prague rabbi Ezekiel Landau mentioned a rabbi Natanael von Hostouň. In 1852 there were 64 Jewish families in Hostau. The Jewish community had a cemetery one kilometer southwest of Hostouň.
When this became too small, a new Jewish cemetery was added in 1850, which was a little closer to the village.
At the end of the 19th century, many Jewish families moved from Hostouň to the larger towns of Kladno , Slaný and Prague. The last burial in the new Jewish cemetery took place in 1932. The synagogue was partially demolished after 1950 and converted into a residential building.
Personalities
- Ota Pavel (1930–1973), writer and journalist
- Antonin Raymond (1888–1976), architect
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online edition ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ starý židovský hřbitov at pamatkovykatalog.cz. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
- ↑ Kladno (Bohemia) at jewische-gemeinden.de. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
- ↑ Obec Hostouň at hostounuprahy.cz. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
- ^ Hugo Gold: The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present
