Jewish cemetery (Boskovice)
The Boskovice Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Boskovice (German Boskowitz ) in Okres Blansko in the Jihomoravský kraj region in the Czech Republic .
history
A Jewish community has been recorded in Boskowitz since the 15th century ; it was one of the largest and most important Jewish communities in Moravia . It is not known when the Jewish cemetery on Potoční Street west of the center on a slope of the hill below the castle game park was established, it was probably in the 16th century. The oldest surviving tombstone ( Mazewa ) dates back to 1670. On an area of 1.5 hectares , there are still around 2400 tombstones today, and the weather influences them more and more.
The ruins of the Tahara house from 1763 with a stone slab with the text of the Kaddish prayer are still on the cemetery grounds. Jews from other communities were also found in the cemetery . B. the Jewish community Zwittau , buried.
Personalities
The learned rabbi Samuel ha-Levi Kolin, known as Machacit ha-Šekel, is buried in the cemetery. He died in 1806.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: Aach - Groß-Bieberau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08077-2 ( online version ).
- Jaroslav Bránský: Židé z Boskovic: příběhy a portréty. Albert, Boskovice 2013, ISBN 978-80-7326-215-0 (biographies, Czech).
- Jaroslav Bránský: Osud Židů z Boskovic a bývalého okresu boskovického. 1939-1945. Albert, Boskovice 1995, ISBN 80-85834-28-6 (Czech).
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Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 7.4 ″ N , 16 ° 38 ′ 53.9 ″ E