Judaism in Kyselka

Synagogue in place 2014

The Judaism in Kyselka was once a strong presence and has until the founding of the spa goes back story.

history

There has been a permanent Jewish population in Kyselka since around 1790 , which increased in the 19th and early 20th centuries to over 200 in 1928. The Jewish population played an important and formative role in Kyselka during this period. They made up around a third of the population and, according to the population census of 1928, was the largest ethnic group in the place after the Czech . A synagogue was built in 1925 and a smaller Jewish cemetery in 1928 . In the time of National Socialism after the Munich Agreement in 1938, almost all Jews were relocated to the rest of Czecho-Slovakiaexpelled and the synagogue of the place fell victim to the Reichspogromnacht . The Holocaust during World War II survived almost all the Jews of the place and returned after the war to Kyselka. There the Jewish community was re-established and the synagogue was rebuilt. The cemetery was left destroyed. After Israel was founded , many Jewish families immigrated to the new state. The loss of population could no longer be absorbed, the Jewish community was dissolved and the synagogue fell into disrepair in the 1950s. Some remaining Jews converted or moved to other cities. Today only a few Jews live in Kyselka.

Demographics

In 2010 about 25 Jews lived in the Kyselka district. In 2012 only 20, which is about 7.65 percent of the 153 inhabitants. The Jewish population today consists only of Ashkenazim . In the past, Misrahim and Sephardim were represented in the locality in the minority . Most Jews speak Czech and Hebrew or Yiddish as a second language.

In Kyselka today there are only representatives of liberal and secular Judaism. The formerly dominant Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Judaism disappeared in the 1950s.

See also

• History of the Jews in the Czech Republic
• History of the Jews in Austria

Web links

• Overview of Jewish life in Kyselka and the surrounding area In: www.gymostrov.cz (Czech, accessed April 17, 2017)
• Mattonka začne s opravami dvou pavilonů v bývalých lázních Kyselka. In: idnes.cz , September 21, 2012 (Czech, accessed December 31, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bohuslav Machek, Marie Dolejší: Dravec Mattoni. 2013, ISBN 978-80-86948-21-8 (Czech)
2. ↑ Bohuslav Machek, Marie Dolejší: Dravec Mattoni. 2013, ISBN 978-80-86948-21-8 (Czech) section obyvatelstvo (source of the 1928 population census).