Heřmanův Městec

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Location of Heřmanův Městec in the Czech Republic
Location of Heřmanův Městec in the Czech Republic

Heřmanův Městec (IPA: [ˈɦɛr̝manu:f ˈmɲɛstɛts]; German: Hermanmiestetz, Hermannstädt(e)l, etc) is a town in Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has ca. 4,800 inhabitants.

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[edit] Jewish Hermanmiestetz

Jewish cemetery in Heřmanův Městec
Jewish cemetery in Heřmanův Městec

Jews were living there as early as 1509, engaged in commerce and money-lending; but the Jewish community proper dates from 1591. The Jews were confined to a ghetto under the protectorate of the overlords of the city. One of these, Count Johann Wenceslaus Spork, built a synagogue in 1760, which was modernized in 1870. The Jewish parochial school was transformed into a German public school. Since 1891 Hermanmiestetz has been the seat of a district rabbi, the dependent communities being Chrudim, Roubowitz, and Drevikau.

The following have officiated as rabbis in Hermanmiestetz:

  • Bunem (d. 1734);
  • Selig-Landsteiner (d. 1743);
  • Ḥayyim Traub (d. 1790);
  • Elias Treitel (d. 1823);
  • Samuel Brod (d. 1850);
  • Moses Bloch, till 1855 (since 1877 professor at the rabbinical seminary at Budapest);
  • Benjamin Feilbogen, till 1863;
  • S. Rosenberg, 1864-68;
  • Dr. Nehemias Kronberg, the present incumbent, called in 1891.

Judah Löb Borges (d. 1872), a member of the community distinguished for his Talmudic and literary attainments, officiated temporarily whenever there was a vacancy in the rabbinate.

The community supports a burial society, a society for nursing the sick, a Talmud Torah, and a women's society. The cemetery must have existed as early as the sixteenth century; for it is recorded in a document that in 1667 a field was bought from a citizen for the purpose of enlarging the burial-ground. In 1903 the Jews of Hermanmiestetz numbered 300, those of the whole district aggregating 1,100.

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This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
by Gotthard Deutsch & Nehemias Kranberg

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Coordinates: 49°56′54″N, 15°39′50″E

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