krajina...    historie...  současnost...  a-co-dál?...  ...  fórum...    předchozí  <	-------- history of former jewish settlement in jičín  --------- Jičín (Ger. Gitschin) District town in Bohemia, 75 km NE of Prague. Chartered about the 13th cent. J. settled in Jičín in the 14th cent. In the 1st quarter of the 17th cent. Duke Albrecht of Wallenstein marked off a street - a ghetto - for J. to live in. 14 J. families are recorded in the town in the 18th cent., 20 J. families (67 persons of the J. faith) in the mid-19th cent., 119 persons in 1930 and about 90 in 1939. A J. community was established here about the 17th cent. After World War II the community was not revived. The houses in Jičín were owned by Jacob Bassevi (1570 Verona - 1634 Mladá Boleslav), financier of Emperor Rudolph II, Mathias and Ferdinand II, the first Jew in Bohemia and the entire Habsburg monarchy to be raised to the nobility, a patron of Jičín community. The Austrian writer and literary historian Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936 Vienna) was born in Jičín, in 1987 a memorial tablet was put up on his birthplace in Fortna street. The Jewish street, today´s Židovská street, runs paralel with the N side of the square, in the N part of the town´s historical centre. The houses were mostly rebuilt in the 19th cent. The home of the Jičín community´s rabbi and the school used to be in No. 100. The synagogue is at the E end of Židovská street. There exists no documentary record of its origin, its present Classicist apperiance dates from the period after the 1840 fire. Services were held here until the Nazi occupation. The municipal council bought the building in 1982 and is planning to convert it into an exhibition hall. The Baroque aron ha-kodesh has been preserved. The cemetery is set amid fields near a wood called Obora, 2 km NE of the square. Founded in the mid-17th cent., burials until 1949. Remarkable Baroque tombstones. A memorial tablet in memory of the Nazi victims. Ancestors of the German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg are buried here. The following j. religious societes used to be in the vincinity: Kopidlno (a small town 13 km SSW, a prayer room recorded in the 19th cent.); Libáň (a small town 11 km SW, a small synagogue from the 2nd half of the 19th cent., today used by the Hussite Church, a J. section from 1910 in the municipal cemetery, the birth-place of the Czech-J. poet Jiří Daniel (1916-1946 Bergen-Belsen)).	...mail    ...foto  ...plán  ...audio  ...  ...kontext   > další
	Jiří Fiedler: Jewish Sights of Bohemia and Moravia; Sefer, Praha 1991