Bílina Jewish Community
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 3 ″ N , 13 ° 46 ′ 33 ″ E
The Jewish community in Bílina (German: Bilin ), a city in northern Bohemia in the Okres Teplice des Ústecký kraj ( Czech Republic ), came into being in the 1870s and was wiped out by the Holocaust .
history
The first written mentions of Jews in Bílina come from the 15th century.
The Jewish residents of Bílina belonged to the Jewish community of Teplitz until 1872 . Afterwards they formed their own Jewish community together with the Jews in the immediate vicinity . From 1890, all Jewish residents in the judicial district of Bílina belonged to the Bílina religious community .
This had a synagogue built in 1895 and, since 1891, its own cemetery . Around 1925/1930 the religious community had around 120 members, five years later only around 70 people.
time of the nationalsocialism
In 1941/42, the Jewish residents of Bílina were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto or directly to the extermination camps in occupied Poland .
rabbi
- From 1885: Jakob Steiner, employed as a rabbi and teacher
- 1889 to 1892: Moritz Zrzavy
- 1893/94: Gabriel Gottlieb
- 1895 to 1906: Heinrich Brock
- 1907 to 1911: Ignatz Löwy
- 1912 to 1914: Arpad Hirschberger
- 1914: Rabbi Sunshine
- 1914 to 1918: vacant
- 1922 to 1925: Samuel Ungermann
- From 1929: AH Teller (see also under literature)
Associations
- Chewra Kadisha , the funeral company was founded in 1895
- Women's association, founded in 1901
- Temple Choir Association (Synagogue Choir ), founded in the 1920s
See also
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online edition ).
- AH Teller (Rabbi in Bilin): History of the Jews in Bilin and the surrounding area . In: Hugo Gold , The Jews and Jewish communities of Bohemia in the past and present, Jüdischer Buch- und Kunstverlag, Brno / Prague 1934, pp. 34–37 ( online ) at the Upper Austria Regional Library
