Rakovník Jewish Community

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Synagogue in Rakovník

The Jewish community in Rakovník (German Rakonitz), a district town in the Czech Republic in the Central Bohemian region of Středočeský kraj , did not develop until the second half of the 17th century, even if the Jewish settlement is older. The first documentary mention dates back to 1441. In the following years only isolated Jewish families settled here, from 1618 to 1621 three families from the nearby community of Senomaty moved here, and in the course of the 17th century a Jewish community emerged 1796 was officially legalized.

The Jewish population in Rakovník developed as follows:

1690 38 people
1724 7 families
1830 14 families
1851 30 families
1900 329 people 5 percent of the total population
1930 153 people 1 percent of the total population

In 1942 the Jewish population was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto and then to various extermination camps. After the Second World War, the community was not renewed.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Jiří Fiedler: Židovské památky v Čechách a na Moravě , keyword Rakovník , online at: holocaust.cz / ...
  2. a b c Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of Jewish communities in the German-speaking area , 3 volumes, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08035-2 , keyword GEMEINDE , online at: Jewish-gemeinden.de /. .. (in the Laun / Eger section in the lower half)
  3. ^ Albert Kohn (ed.): The Notable Assembly of the Israelites of Bohemia in Prague, their deliberations and resolutions , Leopold Sommer, Vienna 1852, 385 pages

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